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re: US District Court in NOLA has stayed a bunch of civil cases where fraud has been alleged.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 8:36 am to DevilDagNS
Posted on 8/22/19 at 8:36 am to DevilDagNS
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The reckoning is coming for the plaintiff bar in Louisiana and their doctors (chiropractors lol) and they know it too
I believe this is way beyond chiros
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Posted on 8/22/19 at 8:39 am to teke184
Plus the expense of jury trials (jury bonds..though paid by the requesting party etc...) And juries are awfully difficult to predict. You get one bad juror with an axe to grind and you can easily lose a case you should have won. Judges are somewhat predictable since they have a record, and you can better advise your client as to what to expect.
This post was edited on 8/22/19 at 8:41 am
Posted on 8/22/19 at 8:40 am to Tornado Alley
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Judges are almost always going to split a baby re: damages. If anything, the $50K threshold clogs up the system. Juries are much more likely to punish a plaintiff they believe is a phony. Judges aren’t.
Correct. Vast majority of times the plaintiff gets enough for fees and expenses at the very least even though they brought suit, draw it out, and cause all parties excess expense just to drive up amounts for shiddy cases/plaintiffs.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 8:43 am to rumproast
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Oh really? Lets see...reduce the jury threshold to 5k. Now everything is tried to a jury...thus more expensive. Many victims won't have the money to sue. (and no..lawyers wont be taking soft tissue cases on contingent bases...especially with increased costs.) So victims who dont have money and dont gave devastating injuries are hurt by this
Imagine believing this is for the good of the victims. It's a nationwide rule for the most part. Are poor victims screwed in MS? Nah.
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You dont see how the removal of the collateral source rule negatively impacts real victims? Paying health insurance premiums and taking the benefit of the reduced rate away from the victim and giving it to the liability insurer. That hurts victims.
Again, imagine believing this is for the good of the victim. If the victim has no monetary damages, there is no case.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 8:44 am to rumproast
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Plus the expense of jury trials (jury bonds..though paid by the requesting party etc...) And juries are awfully difficult to predict. You get one bad juror with an axe to grind and you can easily lose a case you should have won. Judges are somewhat predictable since they have a record, and you can better advise your client as to what to expect.
It's all about the victims, sure.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 8:46 am to rumproast
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Go watch the documentary called "Hot "Coffee" and see what happened to med mal insurance rates in states where caps were deemed unconstitutional. Here's a hint...they didn't go up. It's a lie pushed by the medical lobby. And as for runaway jury awards...thank god we have appellate review (2 layers) including quantum review, so crazy jury awards are essentially impossible. It's a bill of goods. Go watch that documentary. Your eyes may open.
Those states aren't Louisiana. This state is one of the most litigious and the system in place currently supports that.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 9:29 am to DevilDagNS
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The reckoning is coming for the plaintiff bar in Louisiana and their doctors (chiropractors lol) and they know it too.
No it isn't. That's just wishful thinking. Yes a few here and there may get popped, but the broken system will never change and shitty people will make a lot of money cheating it, and nothing will ever happen to them.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 9:32 am to TheCurmudgeon
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The reckoning is coming for the plaintiff bar in Louisiana and their doctors (chiropractors lol) and they know it too.
Do you even Gumbo PAC, baw?
Posted on 8/22/19 at 9:34 am to rumproast
Good post.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 10:15 am to rumproast
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Oh really? Lets see...reduce the jury threshold to 5k. Now everything is tried to a jury...thus plaintiffs have to actually have a good case to prevail. I don't want that.
FIFY
Posted on 8/22/19 at 10:53 am to REG861
quote:Let's get back on track here.
Look up Sean Alfortish. They're an item. He’s a party in these cases. This is going to get very interesting.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 11:07 am to FearTheFish
Having looked through some of the cases, wow. Some pretty solid argument put out there by the Defs regarding all the cases filed and the links between them. Never heard of the atty VM but that’s quite some aggressive case filings for someone just admitted in 2016.
I didn’t see any involvement by other attorneys/firms mentioned in this and the other thread so not sure how or if they are or may be involved in these.
Also noted that VM’s address in earlier filings is the same as that used by some of the “medical billing” third party litigation funding entities, which is interesting to say the least.
I didn’t see any involvement by other attorneys/firms mentioned in this and the other thread so not sure how or if they are or may be involved in these.
Also noted that VM’s address in earlier filings is the same as that used by some of the “medical billing” third party litigation funding entities, which is interesting to say the least.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 11:22 am to Havoc
quote:I know attorneys practicing for 10+ years that don't file some of the things VM has.
that’s quite some aggressive case filings for someone just admitted in 2016.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 11:22 am to Havoc
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Also noted that VM’s address in earlier filings is the same as that used by some of the “medical billing” third party litigation funding entities, which is interesting to say the least.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 11:42 am to arseinclarse
Posted on 8/22/19 at 11:51 am to arseinclarse
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Not bad
I'd let her drop her briefs.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 11:54 am to arseinclarse
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Vanessa Motta of Motta Law
This her?
Posted on 8/22/19 at 11:59 am to tgrbaitn08
Posted on 8/22/19 at 12:48 pm to arseinclarse
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Motta has been in the Entertainment Industry as a successful Stuntwoman for over 11 years,
Yep
Posted on 8/22/19 at 12:50 pm to tgrbaitn08
quote:It is.
This her?
On some level it is kind of amazing that such a young lawyer gets accused of something on this level. This is more along the lines of something I'd expect out of a couple other firms (which shall remain nameless).
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