Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Cap Mandrake]

6 B-25's and 10 B-26's don't even scare the Toucans

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 6
B-26B Marauder x 10


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 2 damaged

[Cap Mandrake]

This raid of B-25's scores no hits and even gets a fine from the SPCA

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 5


No Allied losses

[Cap Mandrake]

The P-40E's do manage to find the Jap hospital tent and wound some Japs in wheelchairs.

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 24


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
What if I go long and get a whole hot tub installed?

Only if you get the integrated waterproof laptop, document holder and lighting system.

What? No drink holder?

Huh? Are you implying that your hot tub is filled with actual water instead of being a drink holder?

[Cap Mandrake]

Y'all need to get you some of these. It's like this turn after turn. I think it is that cool circular thingy above the cockpit. It must be the aiming device for some death ray.

Here are the 38 medium bombers at Nadi. Better pilots, "nominally" better planes....

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk


Hopefully, you'll get deposed

But I don't WANT to be deposed. I like being in charge of the Green Army men.

Don't forget to keep a list of incurred expenses like chlorine for your hottub. You can say that reviewing the file in your hottub is necessary to your process.

What if I go long and get a whole hot tub installed?

Being deposed is free money to you (not necessarily to the parties concerned, but, hey, you're the pro from Dover).

We had an administrator try to charge a Honda to an estate, since he didn't own a local car . . . the judge was not amused.

[rtrapasso]

Curiously enough - just doing a CME course on Risk Management, and i ran across this nugget:

"Expert Witness Fees: Expert witnesses are an expensive part of the litigation process. For an expert’s review of records and testimony, fees can range from a few hundred dollars per hour to a few thousand dollars per hour. In some cases, the expert charges a flat fee for an initial review that could range from a thousand to several thousand dollars. Many experts charge a flat fee to come to court and testify, such as a fee of $10,000."

So, it sounds like you are on the low end of the spectrum, unless you can run up the hours something fierce.

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Curiously enough - just doing a CME course on Risk Management, and i ran across this nugget:

"Expert Witness Fees: Expert witnesses are an expensive part of the litigation process. For an expert’s review of records and testimony, fees can range from a few hundred dollars per hour to a few thousand dollars per hour. In some cases, the expert charges a flat fee for an initial review that could range from a thousand to several thousand dollars. Many experts charge a flat fee to come to court and testify, such as a fee of $10,000."

So, it sounds like you are on the low end of the spectrum, unless you can run up the hours something fierce.

I agree; I have been roped in to do occasional expert witness work (only on the defense side) for radiation oncology cases; our medical group charges the legal dudes $600 per hour for my time, and the legal firms don't bat an eye when it comes to paying.

Usually I go to the mat to defend the accused, but sometimes I tell the insurer to settle out of court quick since their client (in my opinion) really screwed up and hurt someone.

And they keep calling me with more work, despite those usurious rates! So, amigo, I would have demanded a higher hourly wage, but like rtp sez, just run up the hours, and it will all even out. Just continue tell them what you think is right, not what they might want to hear.

[witpqs]

There is still time to boost the charges with "hot tub fees" and such.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Moondawggie
our medical group charges the legal dudes $600 per hour for my time, and the legal firms don't bat an eye when it comes to paying.

D'oh!

[Mynok]

Well, that's because the lawyers aren't paying for it. It goes right on the bill to the client.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


Well, that's because the lawyers aren't paying for it. It goes right on the bill to the client.

No..usually it is on the malpractice carrier's tab. [;)]


As we all can surely agree, getting even with an insurance company is the highest form of human endeavor.

[Mynok]

Only when the insurance company is forced to pay the client's bills. They are still bills to the client. [8D]

[wpurdom]

Only when the insurance company is forced to pay the client's bills. They are still bills to the client.

That's the theory. In reality, in malpractice actions, no.

On the plaintiff's side, in theory the bill goes to the client. In practice, unless the relationship gets bitter - i.e., the client sues the lawyer, I can't think of a time when the lawyer attempted to collect the bill from the client.If he wins or settled, it comes out of the recovery, if he loses, it's a theoretical obligaion of the client which the lawyer eats.

On the defense side, it's paid out of the malpractice coverage.

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Mynok


Well, that's because the lawyers aren't paying for it. It goes right on the bill to the client.

No..usually it is on the malpractice carrier's tab. [;)]


As we all can surely agree, getting even with an insurance company is the highest form of human endeavor.

Hallelujah! But when you manage to stiff the trial lawyers at the same time, one's endeavors become those of a God among Men!

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL: wpurdom

Only when the insurance company is forced to pay the client's bills. They are still bills to the client.

That's the theory. In reality, in malpractice actions, no.

To Paraphrase:

"I can't think of a time when the lawyer collects a fee from the plaintiff client in a lost malpractice case."

"If the trial lawyer wins or accepts a settlement, his fee comes out of the award paid to the plaintiff."

"If he loses, the lawyer eats the fee."

Isn't taking cases on a contingency basis a beautiful arrangement: Heads we win; tails we break even except for my lost time.

Sort of makes one wonder if the malpractice superlotto scam would shut down almost completely if the US adopted a "loser pays" European-style approach to tort reform.

With our current prez (who is so dedicated to reducing exploding health care costs), it will undoubtedly be implemented ASAP [:D]

Mandrake, please hold off on dedicating every moment to the new $350/hour consulting gig, and start invading something---we need some action!!!! [>:]

[witpqs]

I've got it - the $350/hr was for the initial consulting. More detailed work is a different rate. How could she have misunderstood that?

[Chickenboy]

Nothing wrong with that. I'd induct a higher rate for testifying or court appearances than I would for background information or general research. There's the whole inconvenience of travel as well as the mandatory "***-hole tax" application. The larger the aforementioned, the greater the tax moving forward.

As for rates, I've charged between $250-$300/hour for consulting fees in the past. Small discounts for full day commitments. There have been some eyebrows raised at these rates. Mostly because these were more than they'd paid for veterinary specialists in the past. You physician types are used to gouging the system, so you should easily be able to argue for 2-3 times what us measly vets are getting.

[witpqs]

In fact, $350/hr was the rate just for that phone call you received from her. That's the ticket!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

In fact, $350/hr was the rate just for that phone call you received from her. That's the ticket!

Are we talking about the same hourly rate here, my Argletonian colleague? You wouldn't be suggesting some sort of double entendre about a stated price from some woman over the phone for services rendered now, would you? [;)][:-]