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MR. NED SIEGFRIED: Over the last several years, we've, our firm has handled more and more medical malpractice cases. Medical malpractice is not an area of law for the timid. We screen a lot of medical malpractice cases in our office, literally, probably 200-300 cases a month. We've become, I believe, you know, pretty astute on determining whether or not, you know, someone has a case we can help them with when they call us. They are difficult cases, as you can well imagine. The doctors and the insurance companies that insure them usually contest these cases rather vigorously to say the least. They can, as a consequence, be very expensive cases to prosecute.

They always, invariably, involve retaining medical experts to help prosecute our case. And then we have to be able to convince a jury, or if it doesn't go to court, we have to build a strong enough case to convince the insurance company that we would likely prevail at trial, in order to convince them that they need to settle it, short of going to trial. We need to be able to establish that the injury that our client suffered while he or she was a patient of the doctor, or in the hospital, was suffered as a result of a breach of the standard of care.