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The Litigation Arms Race


— July 3, 2003

“With the more specialized experts needed for today’s personal injury lawsuits charging as much as $750 per hour — triple the rate of five years ago — or flat fees of as much as $15,000 per trial and experts setting the price of the average claim at $100,000 to prepare and another $100,000 to try, there’s no question that litigation is becoming an expensive option for many plaintiffs,” the Miami Daily Business Review reports here.


“With the more specialized experts needed for today’s personal injury lawsuits charging as much as $750 per hour — triple the rate of five years ago — or flat fees of as much as $15,000 per trial and experts setting the price of the average claim at $100,000 to prepare and another $100,000 to try, there’s no question that litigation is becoming an expensive option for many plaintiffs,” the Miami Daily Business Review reports here.

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