Stories you may be missing if you’re not following our sister site:

• Administration now seeks to take credit for med-mal reform as part of health care plan. How believably? (related here, here, here, here, etc.)
• Also related, if less closely: health care bill packed with goodies for labor;
• Trial lawyers continue push in Congress to restore minimally demanding notice pleading standard by overturning Supreme Court’s Iqbal, Twombly decisions;
• Imprisoned exec of Union Bank of Switzerland wants billions as whistleblowing bounty for assisting federal tax investigators;
• “Right and Left Join Forces on Criminal Justice” — the NYT coverage;
• “New Connecticut Law Tries to Trip Up ‘Runners’ and the Lawyers Who Hire Them”; Connecticut AG Blumenthal to push mandatory hospital error disclosure;
• Third-party litigation finance is getting more controversial;
• “The ethics counsel to the New York state senate told senators to hand-deliver ethics filings, rather than mailing them, to avoid coverage under the federal mail fraud statute.”
• More on public pension funds, securities class-action lawyers, and campaign contributions.

Filed under: champerty, chasing clients, Connecticut, medical malpractice, New York, New York state, pleading, Richard Blumenthal