https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/04/liability-roundup-53/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:14:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/04/liability-roundup-53/comment-page-1/#comment-353970 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:14:11 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73060#comment-353970 Assumption of the risk defense in the New Hampshire slip and fall case?

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/04/liability-roundup-53/comment-page-1/#comment-353969 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:08:00 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73060#comment-353969 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.

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