News of Legal Malpractice

Let's say a previous lawyer had completely missed the deadline to appeal a reconsideration denial and request a hearing. Let's say the SSD claim is now res judicata. This also affected the ability to claim additional benefits from a union pension plan.

Can a legal malpractice claim be feasibly brought for missing this deadline? I guess one of the main issues that concerns me is that you have to generally prove you would have otherwise ...

I have to do a report for civics and am not absolutely positive about what this means. I have an idea, but I want to make sure. Here is is...
“grow Connecticut’s economy and create jobs through creating an environment where small businesses can succeed, reduce federal spending and shrink the national debt, health care reform addressing rising costs, such as through legislation that would reform eligibility for malpractice lawsuits.”

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On top of that, those estimates were before "universal health care". So the demand will likely go up more.

On top of that, you have the senate filled with ex-lawyers giving individuals who are following in their footsteps (far more lawyers graduating from law school now-a-days than ever) the ability to sue anybody for just about anything.

You have judges ruling on malpractice lawsuits with no training in medicine and have no idea ...

They earn about the same income as doctor or pilot, yet have tens of millions of dollars saved. Yet most doctors get sued and have to pay half their salaries for malpractice lawsuit insurance. Now most politicians are or were lawyers- who seem to have a problem being honest. Big movie stars make millions on one film yet still have pensions thru the unions?Atheletes make millions in one season. But a politician makes 175k a ...

I am a victim of legal malpractice in an auto accident case where another driver rear ended me. My attorney did not tell me my case was being investigated for fraud by the other driver's insurance company. (He had his assistant email me a request to come into his office under the ruse that the other driver's insurance agent just wanted to ask me a few questions. When I arrived at his office, he told ...

so i had a sexual harassment case against my former employer, my attorney missed my deadline to file my suit then quit my case because she didn't know what to do. I currently hired a new attorney and am going after her for legal malpractice. Just curious how we determine how much my case was worth?

I know what all the lawyers are going to say but hear me out first :-)...

Wife's father is elderly, has only 1 eye with a cataract. His ophthalmologist says no prob, we'll cut out the cataract and insert an artificial lens. Surgery is supposed to take 1hr, 2hr later he comes out and says he had problems, if necessary they'll go back in a couple days. That night patient is in pain, "seeing things" ...

One reason healthcare is so expensive and costs keep rising is because malpractice insurance costs are going up as well. With as many frivolous lawsuits as there are, healthcare prices would drop dramatically if the government put restraints on the lawyers crowding the doctors offices.

Thoughts?

im doing a research paper for my school and the question i was given was should there be a statute of limitations on malpractice suits, well there already is, so i revised the topic to, is it fair? and i just wanted to hear what some people think on this topic.