Justice

It has finally happened! Justice was served.

According to The Weekly Family Medicine Update, a publication of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (hat tip: WorldNetDaily), "a Stark County judge formally sanctioned a trial attorney for filing a frivolous lawsuit against a Canton-area physician."

It seems trial attorney Catherine Little filed a medical liability lawsuit, on behalf of her client, Benjamin Barbato, against Dr. Zev Maycon. "In the suit, Barbato claimed unnecessary severe physical, mental and emotional pain and suffering resulting from a perforated colon caused by a surgical procedure that Dr. Maycon did not even perform."

That seems to be the way things go, if what's bandied about the water cooler at work is to be believed. Doctors get sued if they so much as glance at the doctor who botched a procedure. And this all-inclusiveness in lawsuits is a big part of what's driving up the cost of medical malpractice insurance, which is what's driving up the cost of medical care.

So it's good to see an attorney get slapped with the $6000 court cost related to her shotgun approach to lawsuits. She's one attorney who may think again before filing this kind of lawsuit.

May this be the start of a beautiful trend.