N.J. Lawyers Sue to Scrap Med-Mal Insurance Fee
East News • January 30, 2005
The New Jersey Legislature could have seen this coming. It enacted a law requiring the state's lawyers, and many doctors, to pay $75 a year for three years to help doctors in high-risk specialties ...
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Subject: Insurance companies have become the Good Guys. Luv It!!
Posted On: February 20, 2005, 6:03 pm CST
Posted By: EQUIPOSE
Comment:
Of all professions reputed to be created by Satan himself, I think it's great that it's now so fashionable to see the insurance industry as the whimpering fuzzy puppy in the corner, huddling from the dangerous boot of attorneys. Every attorney can know that sometime soon the public will love them again and demonize legislators for creating laws singling them out.
The insurance industry, historically, has been about as popular as Catholic "kiddie priests", gay swim teachers, used car sales men, taxmen, auto mechanics, leaflet distributors, reporters, excisemen, politicians (ie, New Jersey legislators), traffic cops, telemarketers, televangelists, pornographers, pick pockets, grand inquisitors, tyrants, fascists, oh, and mimes.
I remember the days of public outcry for insurance companies to pay out on good claims. When people marched down to an attorney's office and said "go get that damn insurance industry that takes thousands of dollars from me each year and won't payout several hundred dollars on a claim." Now our fickle public is saying "oh you dreaded attorneys, pay the insurance companies for making them payout on thier policies." Apple Pie.
The buzz is so widespread that some of the attorney critics must become the Plaintiffs at times. I wonder if they choose the attorney who has consistently caused the least damage to insurance companies bottom lines. I wonder if they take on the wonderful doctors and insurance companies on their own so as to avoid any Plaintiff's attorney from benefitting.
If a crisis exists, rather than uncomfortably squeezed profit margins, maybe it is the fault of the Defense attorneys (keeping attorneys comfortably in the crosshairs), because Insurance Defense Attorneys did not study and train to protect the insurance companies, then Plaintiffs might be able to go head to head with insurance companies.
Then Plaintiff's could experience the great thrill of successful legal negotiation and litigation with, especially with the assistance of all of those Free Medical Experts who help Plaintiffs describe the technical aspects of things like why they can't have any more children, move their left arm, feel their children kiss the left side of their face anymore, or hold their bowels.
If malpractice is essentially self-regulated with medical review panels being more and more sensitized to the required profit margins of their insurance companies, attorneys should be ready to be showered with public affection and a cry to make right what legislation has created.
Subject: Insurance companies have become the Good Guys. Luv It!!
The insurance industry, historically, has been about as popular as Catholic "kiddie priests", gay swim teachers, used car sales men, taxmen, auto mechanics, leaflet distributors, reporters, excisemen, politicians (ie, New Jersey legislators), traffic cops, telemarketers, televangelists, pornographers, pick pockets, grand inquisitors, tyrants, fascists, oh, and mimes.
I remember the days of public outcry for insurance companies to pay out on good claims. When people marched down to an attorney's office and said "go get that damn insurance industry that takes thousands of dollars from me each year and won't payout several hundred dollars on a claim." Now our fickle public is saying "oh you dreaded attorneys, pay the insurance companies for making them payout on thier policies." Apple Pie.
The buzz is so widespread that some of the attorney critics must become the Plaintiffs at times. I wonder if they choose the attorney who has consistently caused the least damage to insurance companies bottom lines. I wonder if they take on the wonderful doctors and insurance companies on their own so as to avoid any Plaintiff's attorney from benefitting.
If a crisis exists, rather than uncomfortably squeezed profit margins, maybe it is the fault of the Defense attorneys (keeping attorneys comfortably in the crosshairs), because Insurance Defense Attorneys did not study and train to protect the insurance companies, then Plaintiffs might be able to go head to head with insurance companies.
Then Plaintiff's could experience the great thrill of successful legal negotiation and litigation with, especially with the assistance of all of those Free Medical Experts who help Plaintiffs describe the technical aspects of things like why they can't have any more children, move their left arm, feel their children kiss the left side of their face anymore, or hold their bowels.
If malpractice is essentially self-regulated with medical review panels being more and more sensitized to the required profit margins of their insurance companies, attorneys should be ready to be showered with public affection and a cry to make right what legislation has created.