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Plaintiffs' lawyers get more sophisticated, win more cases.(Practice Trends)
YOSEMITE, CALIF. -- Plaintiffs' attorneys are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their handling of medical malpractices cases and winning more frequently, Dr. Thomas R. Moore said during a conference on obstetrics and gynecology sponsored by Symposia Medicus.
Dr. Moore, who has consulted with the Bush administration on medical malpractice reform, said that medical malpractice lawyers now regularly share information with each other in organized, systematic ways.
"They have Web sites that you and I cannot go visit, where they share concepts all the way from jury selection to training aids, to the things to say and not to say to win the case," said Dr. Moore, chairman of the department of reproductive medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
According to a study by Jury Verdict Research of Horsham, Pa., released this year, plaintiffs won 42% of medical malpractice cases in which there was a verdict in 2002, up from only 29% in 1996.
For medical malpractice cases involving childbirth negligence specifically, plaintiffs won 60% of cases that had a verdict in 2002, up from 34% in 1996.
This strongly suggests that plaintiffs' lawyers are getting better at prosecuting these cases, Dr. Moore explained.
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