GlaxoSmithKline Plc settled almost 25,000 cases over its Avandia diabetes drug in mediation. In November, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe appointed a mediator to preside over settlement negotiations. She also set a 75-day deadline to resolve 85 percent of the remaining cases. In a court hearing today Judge Cynthia Rufe applauded the effort as “a major success.”
Study says “Mediation saves time and money in medical negligence cases”
Sep 27, 2011 – Mediation can help mitigate the costs, both emotional and financial, of medical liability lawsuits, according to a recent US study. But without participation from physicians, not just their lawyers, other quality improvement benefits that can come from the litigation alternative get lost. In the study various participants in medical mediation’s, including patients, plaintiffs, defence lawyers, and hospital and insurance representatives, said they were satisfied with the proceedings, with 71% of the cases settling. …[Read More…..]
The Advantages of Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE) in all types of Mediation
Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE) has even been incorporated into many, if not all, areas of civil litigation in the US and is proposed in the Irish Draft Mediation Bill 2010. At its core, ENE is exactly what it says it is: a process in which a neutral third party examines the evidence and listens to the disputants’ positions, and then gives the parties his or her evaluation of the case. However, it can be much more than that too: it can be an extraordinarily flexible, beneficial process, and in the hands of a skilled neutral evaluator and/or Mediator it can go way beyond someone simply hearing the facts of a case and then pegging a number or outcome to it. …[Read More…..]
