- Ill-fated names: Londonderry woman sues over fall at Stumble Inn Bar and Grill [Jason Schreiber, New Hampshire Union Leader]
- After starting out as a “humanistic attorney,” lawyer in time comes to net $700,000/year “by sending San Diego workers’ compensation claimants to dirty medical providers” as part of spinal surgery scam that U.S. Justice Department said “cost insurers $500 million over a 15-year period.” [Jim Sams, Claims Journal]
- Lengthy report on creative litigation by municipalities, often done in close harness with contingent-fee private lawyers, explores ill effects and what might be done to rein the process in [Rob McKenna (former Washington State AG), Elbert Lin (former West Virginia SG), and Drew Ketterer (former Maine AG) for U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform]
- “Trial lawyers are paying millions to a handful of experts necessary to push their talc cases” [Dan Fisher, Legal NewsLine, earlier]
- New York City Council Speaker: “Corey Johnson targets Scaffold Law in plan to fix MTA” [Carl Campanile, New York Post, earlier on New York’s unique, pro-plaintiff Scaffold Law]
- “Law Firms Objecting to Mesh Fees Accuse Leadership of Self-Dealing, Bill-Padding” [Amanda Bronstad, Law.com, earlier]
Filed under: expert witnesses, NYC, San Diego, slip and fall, workers' compensation
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Re: Operation Backlash… when you stop to consider that so many of the “spinal surgeries” are themselves unnecessary, this was just compounding the fraud. I didn’t know about the “odd rule” in California that allowed hospitals to bill insurers for the full cost of “spinal hardware” used in surgeries, but the NYT has reported extensively on how many doctors themselves are investors in the hardware companies. I trust that some lobbying from these crooked companies helped that along. I believe that the extent of fraud related to wholly unnecessary orthopaedic surgeries — from backs to knees to shoulders — is in the billions.
Assumption of the risk defense in the New Hampshire slip and fall case?