{"id":23208,"date":"2011-06-24T07:41:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23208"},"modified":"2011-06-24T07:41:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:41:23","slug":"playing-the-odds-hedge-funds-finance-medical-malpractice-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2011\/playing-the-odds-hedge-funds-finance-medical-malpractice-claims.html","title":{"rendered":"Playing The Odds: Hedge Funds Finance Medical Malpractice Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Investors are always looking to earn an easy profit, particularly from well-managed companies. But when the profit is from a hedge fund that finances medical malpractice lawsuits aimed at driving doctors out of the profession, Wall Street may have gone too far.<\/p>\n<p>An entirely new industry has cropped in recent years as trial lawyers set their sights on making money off physicians, corporations and other targets&#8211;particularly financing malpractice suits through hedge funds. In 2010, hedge funds invested $1 billion in these types of suits, much of it for medical malpractice cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2011\/06\/23\/medical-malpractice-hedge-funds.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Investors are always looking to earn an easy profit, particularly from well-managed companies. But when the profit is from a hedge fund that finances medical malpractice lawsuits aimed at driving doctors out of the profession, Wall Street may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23210,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions\/23210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}