Smoking chestnuts to brew in a dark stout will be his project for the summer, says Mr. Leander, the chief technology officer of a medicalmalpracticeinsurance brokerage in Elmwood Park, Ill.
When their home state of Texas was considering capping the amount of pain and suffering damages available to plaintiffs in medicalmalpractice cases, the malpracticeinsurance industry made a big push in support of the legislation.
The Illinois Supreme Court, for example, last year chucked out caps on non-economic damages in medicalmalpractice cases that had been sought by doctors and insurance companies and opposed by trial lawyers.