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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (188586)	3/5/2009 2:21:24 PM
From: John Koligman	Respond to of 306849

I'm no Limbaugh fan but this was pretty funny... Regards, John Obama to Drop Shield if Russia Helps with Limbaugh APA (2009-03-05) President Barack Obama has reportedly written another private note to his Russian counterpart offering to halt deployment of a defensive nuclear missile shield in Europe, this time in exchange for Russia’s help in dealing with U.S. talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh. The White House immediately denied the existence of the letter to President Dmitry Medvedev, but acknowledged “ongoing internal deliberations over a measured response using all the tools of U.S. power, including diplomacy.” Dealing with Mr. Limbaugh has taken the Obama administration’s focus off of other global trouble spots like North Korea, Iran and Chicago. The rift between President Obama and Mr. Limbaugh started in October when the radio kingpin said of Mr. Obama “I hope he fails.” Tension escalated when Democrat pollsters discovered that Rush Limbaugh is the only remaining divisive Republican with name recognition higher than 10 percent.

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (188586)	3/5/2009 2:23:23 PM
From: ajtj99	Respond to of 306849

I once had a customer who went to jail for fraud. He made up phony personal injury lawsuits with claims for about $2,500 average. Almost every single one was settled out of court. When a case went to deposition he'd hire an actor to take the deposition. I think he made over 2,000 claims over several years before he was caught. He was successful for so long because the system encourages insurance companies to settle rather than take a case to trial. The guy did about 18-months in the can if memory serves. He was a lawyer.

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (188586)	3/5/2009 4:13:14 PM
From: James Hutton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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).