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Medical Malpractice

9/29/2008
Bob Grode, Attorney
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False Medical Malpractice "Crisis" Hurts Victims

Lilly, O’Toole & Brown receives phone calls and emails every day from people who have been victims of medical malpractice. Oftentimes it is a poor diagnosis or failure to request diagnostic testing which would help narrow down the causes of the victim’s distress.
Luckily the United States has some of the best physicians in the world and only a small part (like almost any profession) seem to create the most problems. Unfortunately a few years ago the Florida Legislature responded to a medical malpractice issue that did not exist.
The legislature was confronted with concerns that doctors were leaving the state in droves and verdicts against doctors were out of control. Neither one of these things were true, but for insurance companies that insure medical malpractice it created the opportunity for windfall profits that have been hitting the insurance industry ever since.
But as a result of the insurance company tactics the Legislature imposed new rules on medical malpractice claims. As a result of the tightened rules many legitimate malpractice claims now are swept aside and the victim is never able to recover.

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