Medical “Justice,” or Just Us?
Have you heard about Medical Justice? Trusted.MD abhors it. It’s worth reading why. Ron Miller, at the Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog, sees it as a cash cow run by fear-mongering MDs looking to profit off their professional brethren’s insecurities. Ironically, the folks who run Medical Justice, like their spiritual cousins, the tort “reformers,” devote extraordinary [...]
Do Tort Reformers Want Smoke To Get In Your Eyes?
Philip Morris Int’l manufactures a poisonous product that kills its users–cigarettes. It makes scads of money doing it, and wants to continue doing it, without the bother of lawsuits or realistic warning labels, as I will discuss in a moment. But for now, it’s important to recognize Philip Morris for what it is: a leader, [...]
Lojack For Surgeons, and Happy Medical Liability Executives
Florida’s medical malpractice liability insurers have been profiting for the past 6 years. New liability companies apparently can’t wait to write medical malpractice “products” there. Here is the News Press’s take on how robust Florida’s market for medical liability insurance has become. And as Alan Belsky points out in in his firm’s blawg, Maryland Malpractice [...]