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Originally posted by valkyrie
Cream, thank you for saying that! What I think people often to fail to realize is that attorneys don't just file lawsuits on their own -- they file them because somebody has hired them to do so.
Someone earlier mentioned that the family members were greedy if they file a lawsuit (I'm too lazy to go back and find the quote). I think that's a pretty harsh thing to say. I'm guessing that most of you have no idea what it's like to lose a family member due to a medical mistake. I don't either, but I would never presume to judge a family member who decides to seek some type of compensation in such a situation. I've always thought that if someone's life is seriously affected by the error of a doctor, she deserves some type of compensation to make her life easier. What if, for example, a woman is a stay at home mom with four kids and her husband made only enough money for them to scrape by every month before he was killed as a result of doctor error. Is she greedy when she files a lawsuit?
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What really burns me up, is that in LA (I don't know about other states) there is a $500,000 cap on a doctor's liability.
I hate it when people confuse medical malpractice plaintiff's lawyers with ambulance-chaser personal injury attorneys. There is a big difference. MedMal is (usually) because of doctor fault; some of them are bogus; there are a lot more ridiculous PI claims out there (hot coffee, anyone?)
