Reforms from an unlikely source is helping improve its image:
Another change applies to lawyers from outside Madison County who want to file cases there because they have heard about big verdicts. Those lawyers now face a lengthy and cumbersome registration process to justify why suits are filed in Madison County.Also, every medical malpractice lawsuit filed in Madison County now faces mandatory mediation before lawyers can try filing it in-court.
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Kevin is right – it’s all about image. Madison County’s reputation never had anything to do with facts or merits of the particular cases. It had to do with corporate defendants preferring not to be held accountable for their actions.
TO anonymous 12:57–
Counselor, don’t you have anything better to do than troll the medical blogs? I’m sure you don’t see too many physicians in the lawyer blogs. We actually have work to do.
Three thousand counties in the USA, how did this county get picked for the honor? Bush, Wall Street Journal, medical organizations, business organizations.
And why does this new judge feel the image has to be changed if there’s nothing wrong?
364 med-mal cases tried, average 45 a year, in a county of 250K.
A third of the country’s asbestos class action cases. About a hundred class action cases a year.
They must be really unlucky to get this reputation.
Anon 6:36,
I can see how busy you are, since you’re posting here.
I like to think of educating you as my calling.
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