A Day In The Trenches, Or, How Med Mal Defense Lawyers Behave At EBTs
Yesterday, I witnessed a senior partner at a major medical malpractice defense firm act like a toddler. In fact, he became, before my eyes, the neighborhood kid who becomes angry when he does poorly in the backyard football game, and takes his football home. Let me set the scene. As is usually the case, I [...]
NYS Commission on Public Integrity Wants to Muzzle Me
Why would it want to do that? All I did was suggest that the Commission may have had ulterior motives when it dismissed, without so much as an investigation, an ethics complaint made by the Center for Justice and Democracy about the lack of balance on the Medicaid Redesign Team. And yet, today I received [...]
Medical Malpractice Caps Absent From NYS Budget
According to Capitol Confidential, a budget agreement has been reached in Albany, and it does not include caps on medical malpractice awards. As many of you know, the Medicaid Redesign Team had proposed a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages, which would have unfairly impacted children, the elderly, the unemployed and under-employed. No word yet on [...]