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Frivolous Lawsuits - Trivial Legal Claim, Merit Lacking Lawsuits ...
Frivolous Lawsuits - what is it? What is the difference of a frivolous lawsuit and legitimate lawsuit? Many frivolous lawsuits arise from medical malpractice suits. Personal Injury Lawyer takes thirty five percent of fee. How frivolous lawsuits can drive healthcare costs higher. Sanctions against frivolous lawsuits are fines imposed on plaintiff and countersuits by defendant. Countersuing can involve plaintiff, lawyer, lawyer's law firm and expert witnesses. .
Lawyer takes over from founder as CEO
Medical malpractice insurer ProAssurance Corp. said Thursday that lawyer Stan Starnes will replace company co-founder Dr. Derrill Crowe as chief executive. Crowe, 70, has decided to retire as CEO, though he will remain chairman of the Birmingham company he helped build in the nation's fourth-largest provider of medical professional liability coverage. Starnes had been managing partner of the Starnes & Atchison firm in Birmingham until late 2006, when he became president of corporate planning and administration at Brasfield & Gorrie, one of the nation's largest construction companies. He will become chief of ProAssurance, the state's No. 1 malpractice insurer, on July 1. Crowe said Starnes, 58, has been a personal confidant and has been involved with ProAssurance for three decades.
Plaintiffs' Personal Injury Attorneys Get Analyzed
The New York Law School Law Review's latest edition is all about the plaintiff's bar. The opening to this article should whet the appetite for a full read, and should be interesting to those who think we have too many lawsuits. The article is (for those non-lawyers peeking in today) deeply foot-noted to supporting research: In any given year, as many as 98,000 people may die from preventable medical errors. This is more than the number of people who die from highway auto accidents, workplace accidents, and breast cancer combined. Yet according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, only 1156 medical malpractice cases were litigated in the seventy-five most populous counties in 2001. Of those, only one-third involved a wrongful death claim. Why is there such a discrepancy between the number of wrongful deaths and the number of cases litigated? One possible answer is that lawyers simply decline to file a large number of potential cases.
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