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Attorney John C. elected Officer of the new FELA Litigation Group of AAJ

At the AAJ Annual Convention in San Francisco in August of 2009, the FELA Litigation Group held its first annual meeting. The American Association for Justice, formerly The American Trial Lawyers Association, is the largest plaintiff’s bar group in the country, comprised of thousands of lawyers who represent consumers and regular people in injury and wrongful death cases against insurance companies and corporations.

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Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Account for Less Than 2 Percent of Overall Health Care Costs

The debate over health care reform has taken many unusual twists and turns including talk of death panels and forced euthanasia. Such nonsense has predominantly been dismissed, but one issue remains prevalent in the public discourse over reforming the U.S. health care system: medical tort reform. It’s a popular talking point many opponents of proposed…

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