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Practice Points

• Client Characteristics
  

  ..1. Main complaint not "attitude uncaring"
  ..2. Client unusually credible
  ..3. Survivor rather than victim
  ..4. Understates rather than exaggerates
  ..5. Free from personality disorder

• Negligence Issues
  

  ..6. Independent of causation
  ..7. One episode
  ..8. Readily identified
  ..9. One principal defendant
  10. Diagnostic rather than treatment
  11. Other caregiver's criticism unnecessary
  12. Acknowledged by College of Physicians and Surgeons
  13. Would attract settlement offer

• Causal Connection
  

  14. Direct and self-evident
  15. Res ipsa loquitur unnecessary
  16. Precedents in case-law

• Maximum Quantum
  

  17. >$20,000
  18. >$40,000
  19. >$60,000
  20. >$80,000
  21. >$100,000