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	<title>Comments on: Overlawyered on the $217M misdiagnosed stroke case</title>
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		<title>By: CJD</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some facts in the OL story that might help us understand the award, or at least why the jury is so pissed:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&quot;I honestly don&#039;t know whether liability is appropriate for the use of an &quot;unlicensed physician&#039;s assistant&quot; to do triage, so I&#039;ll defer to the medical experts.  Is that &quot;putting profits first&quot; or ensuring that a scarce supply of doctors are reserved for important issues? The insurance company plainly thought that this was a nuisance case. What do doctors think?&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;and&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Where was the hospital?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;and&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&quot;[Plaintiffs&#039; attorney Steve] Yerrid told the Tampa newspaper he tried to get the insurance company to settle for the maximum allowed under the policy - $1 million for the doctor and $1 million for the physicians&#039; group. Instead, he said, the insurance company wanted to settle for $300, offering $100 for Navarro, $100 for his wife and $100 for his 10-year-old son.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some facts in the OL story that might help us understand the award, or at least why the jury is so pissed:</p>
<p>&#8220;I honestly don&#8217;t know whether liability is appropriate for the use of an &#8220;unlicensed physician&#8217;s assistant&#8221; to do triage, so I&#8217;ll defer to the medical experts.  Is that &#8220;putting profits first&#8221; or ensuring that a scarce supply of doctors are reserved for important issues? The insurance company plainly thought that this was a nuisance case. What do doctors think?&#8221;</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>Where was the hospital?</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>&#8220;[Plaintiffs' attorney Steve] Yerrid told the Tampa newspaper he tried to get the insurance company to settle for the maximum allowed under the policy &#8211; $1 million for the doctor and $1 million for the physicians&#8217; group. Instead, he said, the insurance company wanted to settle for $300, offering $100 for Navarro, $100 for his wife and $100 for his 10-year-old son.&#8221;</p>
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