News of Legal Malpractice

I have a friend who hired an attorney in early August 2009 to help him get Social Security Disability.
He applied because he has bipolar, ptsd, gerd, asthma, irritable bowel, etc. His attorney FORGOT to apply in August and the attorney filed in October 2009. ( 2 month set back )

My friend received papers from DDS in November to fill out. It gave him 10 days to fill out the information and send it ...

how can i report my attorney without hiring a legal malpractice lawyer? and how can this affect my current case?

I need some suggestions for the best legal malpractice attorney in Detroit. Anyone out there know what firm that could be?

I want to present a legal malpractice claim to the State Bar regarding a personal injury (non-auto) claim. I plan to type my papers and provide the exhibts including all correspondance with my attorney. When the State Bar investigator gets the papers, what does he or she look for? What steps do they take? How does it work?

Americans for Insurance Reform, a project of Center for Justice & Democracy, has released a new study called True Risk: Medical Liability, Malpractice Insurance and Health Care.
It is co-written by actuary Robert Hunter, Director of Insurance for Consumer Federation of America, and former Federal Insurance Administrator and Texas Insurance Commissioner.

Its major findings are:

1. Medical malpractice premiums, inflation-adjusted, are nearly the lowest they have been in over 30 years.

2. Medical malpractice claims, ...

My sister who has psychiatric disabilities worked for company and carried and LTD insurance policy to reimburse 70% of income if disabled. Upon becoming disabled she received her compensation. The company changed plan administrators and was bought out by another company. Soon after she was denied benefits due to nature of her illness. She hired an ERISA attorney who was not responsive and he never secured copy of of original SPD which she believes did ...

The present bill spends $1 Trillion per year for the next 10 years.

What, if anything could be done for healthcare for a mere $100 Billion per year of the next 10 years? Here's one possible outline, but I would like to hear yours:

1) Spend $75 Billion per year for the next 10 years on Primary Care clinics managed by the Red Cross near the emergency room entrances of 2500 hospitals in USA. These ...

...funding program have legislation that prevents the trial lawyers from representing clients that desire to press suit on the grounds of medical malpractice? If not, would the trial lawyers not just suit the American government(tax payers) in place of the insurance companies they formally placed suits against? Like would the taxes collected to fund universal insurance coverage have to be raised every time a lawyer won a medical malpractice suit against the U.S. government? I ...