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From: hu@sdcsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Who is Liable??
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Date: Wed, 2-May-84 15:34:04 EDT
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but I hope you guys don't mind.  About the deep pockets theory,
I recently read of case where it backfired.  In a malpractice
suit, the patient, at the bidding of his lawyer, sued everyone
in sight, including several physicians who weren't involved in
the case or who were only slightly involved.  The lawyer, operating
on a contingency, was hoping sympathetic, anti-MD juries would
award him lots of money (which would be payed by the huge malpractice
insurance companies).  One physician, fed up with all this cr*p,
counter-sued the lawyer (for causing him so much trouble and damaging
his reputation) and got a judgement for $85,000 plus legal fees.
I wish things like that happened more often.
					--Alan Hu
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