Three Ohio courts in six months sanctioned plaintiff lawyers for pursuing unsupported claims against three doctors. Judges awarded the physicians their legal expenses. In New Orleans, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a similar award to a Mississippi doctor Nov. 13.The courts chastised the attorneys for wanton behavior including: suing the wrong doctor; refiling a claim against a physician even though the plaintiff’s expert withdrew his testimony the first time around; and having no expert testimony against one doctor yet failing to drop the case.
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But everybody knows frivolous malpractice suits never happen. The tort mafia says so.
I mean, they have to file a certificate of merit.
Cost them a whole couple thousand to file.
I hate frivolous lawsuits, but I also hate the deceit that is done by drs and hospitals when a real negligence existed like the one that killed my mother at 61 years old and the covering of records to change things in there favor was performed. Could you be someone involved with the crime of changing records to cover your a–?! You’ll never know how it feels to know your mother died prematurely due to pure negligence of a hospital that billed over $300,000.00 during her stay. What if this were your Mother, Father, Brother, Sister or even sibling?
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