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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (188586)	3/5/2009 4:13:14 PM
From: James Hutton	Read Replies (1) of 306849

OT - Yeah, for a med mal case, you're looking at at least two testifying experts - a medical expert probably at over $1,000/hour and a damages expert in the low-mid hundreds/hour. Then there's your non-testifying medical expert in the mid-hundreds/hour. There may be other experts depending on the case. Then you get to pay the fees of the other side's experts when you depose them. And defense will trot out several experts just to jack up the deposition and trial expenses. Then of course, there's the court reporting expenses - well into the thousands - and court costs, travel, etc. And those cases - from what I know - are really hard to win. I've witnessed people doing them - one ended very badly - and therefore have stayed away. That one was a pulmonary embolism that the hospital failed to diagnose. The defense was even if they had looked for it and found it the plaintiff - a 35-year old mom of two - would have died ("she was dead when she entered the hospital" was the defense's mantra even though she was in intensive care for several days).

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