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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (24184)	7/15/2012 7:59:42 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

>> But my point was that they will take the case whether or not it has merit if they think it's a win. The bar isn't that high, unless you mean by "win" the attorney makes some money. I think the statistics that are around on this fail to take into account that many, if not most, are settled out of court and no one ever knows about it except the malpractice insurance company and the parties doing the suing. The goal of the attorney is to make money off idle threats if possible, put a third in his pocket and 2/3 in the pocket of the "injured party", and there you go. I did some work for a chiropractic clinic that saw nothing but PI cases. Their claims were not medical claims at all. Almost all their claims were against property & casualty companies or attorneys who were footing the bill for the "medical exam". When they shut down their practice (chiro had decided go to medical school), they had several thousand active patients. That's in central Arkansas, a tiny market. It is a big business in larger markets, I'm pretty sure.