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“It’s a big di erence from living in my
car when I rst started law school, but we have planes so we can reach and help more people, not for luxury.”
agreed with us on everything, and o ered ev- ery penny we asked for: $29.5 million. In the state of California, the entire family (four mi- nor children and a surviving husband) would be entitled to a single lump sum of $250,000, which would then be reduced by costs and at- torneys’ fees.”
In the case of the recent Iowa trial, in which the plainti ’s pathology report was mixed up with a cancer patient’s, again, the award would have been reduced from $12.25 million down to $250,000 in California.
“A er costs and attorneys’ fees, the client would have ended up with less than $150,000 for a life of impotence and incontinence re- sulting from a completely unnecessary sur- gery that he decided to undergo believing he had prostate cancer,” Rowley explains.
Rowley is taking his ght straight to the top. He’ll settle for nothing less than a face-to-face meeting with the governor himself to plead the case for medical malpractice victims in California. He says he hopes the governor has
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