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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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| RE: Med-Mal Insurance Fee | Ellen | Feb 24, 2005, 7:18 am |
| Insurance companies have become the Good Guys. Luv It!! | EQUIPOSE | Feb 20, 2005, 6:03 pm |
| RE: RE: Med-Mal Insurance Fee | LR | Feb 19, 2005, 3:21 pm |
| RE: Med-Mal Insurance Fee | William | Feb 15, 2005, 8:17 pm |
| RE: Med-Mal Insurance Fee | Renee | Feb 1, 2005, 11:17 am |
| Med-Mal Insurance Fee | Bill Reid | Jan 31, 2005, 12:49 pm |
| Oh, too funny | Mike | Jan 31, 2005, 12:22 pm |
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Subject: RE: Med-Mal Insurance Fee
1. Med mal attorneys make a lot more money than doctors and the attorneys that represent the insurance companies.
2. Less than one quarter of all malpractice suits have any real merit or damages - attorneys are playing the odds looking for a settlement and don't really want to go to trial unless they need real bucks to pay their ex-wifes. Juries are not made up of doctors peers - just people who assume that a doc makes a lot of money and they are jealous.
3. Does anyone in their right mind really believe that there are that many bad doctors in the state to sustain sizeable incomes in legal practices that only handle med mal? Keep in mind NJ has 22,000 doctors and 35,000 lawyers.
4. Yes, jury verdicts are out of control. How can any attorney tell you that they are not given a recent $75 million verdict in Essex county?
Smoke and mirrors from the NJ Trial lawyers. I guess we should all be paying them for being so ethical and upstanding.