WE IN HEALTHCARE HAVE HAD “PRICE -FIXING” VIA THE FISCAL INTERMEDIARY(BLUE CROSS/SBLUE SHIELD HERE) FOR MANY YEARS… SO WHY CAN’T THE LAWYERS DEAL WITH IT…?
IF THE CLEINTS CAN WAIVE THEIR RIGHT TO THEIR SETTLEMENT AND GIVE THEIR LAWYERS MORE??? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE.. THE LAWYERS CAN CONTROL THEIR INCOME AND THE DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS CANNOT /////
So much of our increased medical costs are due to the sue happy society we have become and hopefully this will swing the pendulum back in the right direction. We have doctors quitting because they cannot afford malpractice insurance. We pay out $10,000 or more just to get rid of a nuisance claim. That just sets the tone. Sure there are those that are truly entitled to a settlement due to a doctors error but then that person should get that money not be swallowed up by attorneys. They certainly are entitled to an hourly fee but they are so over the top in everything they do including $2 a page for photocopies. Let them work out of a normal office for a change and work for a living.
I’ve worked in professional Liability claims management for 30 years, & the toughest aspect of settling claims is coming up with enough money to satisfy the attys. The plaintiff’s are generally not the problem. If these attys can afford to spend $25 Million to defeat Amend. #3, they must be making a heck of a lot of money already. It is all about Greed & Ego. These attys do not always work in their clients best interests, but always in their own. They make the same fee % no matter how little work they may have to do on some cases. On smaller value cases, often the atty makes more than the client, after costs, etc. There are enough attys out there that not too many people will be unable to find a competent atty to take there case, if it actually has merit & value.
I’d say somebody finally put the lid on the personal injury cookie jar. Now how about broad tort reform for all industries.
Alas, the king has no clothes.
WE IN HEALTHCARE HAVE HAD “PRICE -FIXING” VIA THE FISCAL INTERMEDIARY(BLUE CROSS/SBLUE SHIELD HERE) FOR MANY YEARS… SO WHY CAN’T THE LAWYERS DEAL WITH IT…?
IF THE CLEINTS CAN WAIVE THEIR RIGHT TO THEIR SETTLEMENT AND GIVE THEIR LAWYERS MORE??? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE.. THE LAWYERS CAN CONTROL THEIR INCOME AND THE DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS CANNOT /////
So much of our increased medical costs are due to the sue happy society we have become and hopefully this will swing the pendulum back in the right direction. We have doctors quitting because they cannot afford malpractice insurance. We pay out $10,000 or more just to get rid of a nuisance claim. That just sets the tone. Sure there are those that are truly entitled to a settlement due to a doctors error but then that person should get that money not be swallowed up by attorneys. They certainly are entitled to an hourly fee but they are so over the top in everything they do including $2 a page for photocopies. Let them work out of a normal office for a change and work for a living.
I’ve worked in professional Liability claims management for 30 years, & the toughest aspect of settling claims is coming up with enough money to satisfy the attys. The plaintiff’s are generally not the problem. If these attys can afford to spend $25 Million to defeat Amend. #3, they must be making a heck of a lot of money already. It is all about Greed & Ego. These attys do not always work in their clients best interests, but always in their own. They make the same fee % no matter how little work they may have to do on some cases. On smaller value cases, often the atty makes more than the client, after costs, etc. There are enough attys out there that not too many people will be unable to find a competent atty to take there case, if it actually has merit & value.