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forum featured discussions pol columns legal experts articles books links masthead advanced search forum « roberts hearings and ole' arlen | employment law overview » september 12, 2005form measures on the ballot. (angela galloway, "dueling over medical malpractice", seattle post-intelligencer, sep. 8). initiative 330 caps attorneys' fees in malpractice cases, non-economic damagesand places limitations on joint and several liability. in response, the trial lawyers have put up a potemkin measure on the ballot, initiative 336, calling for an investigation of insurance fees, theequiring certificates of merit and barring "frivolous" suits ("frivolous" being defined narrowly enough that anyone filing a certificate of merit will never meet the standard), and, worst of all, the4, nov. 2, etc.). then, after both sides' florida measures passed, ap noted about the three-strikes law:legal experts say the measure could let loose a flood of malpractice suits. doctors say it willanded the state as probably the most unfriendly state for physicians," said robert yelverton, a tampa doctor. ... lester brickman, a professor of legal ethics at the cardozo school of law of yeshivas will settle to avoid a "strike" on their record. "you'll see hundreds of these claims," brickman said. "in the next 10 years virtually every doctor in the state of florida will have been sued."
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