From the Miami Herald
TALLAHASSEE —
Florida's top legislative leaders on Thursday lashed out at the advocates who helped win $8.5 million in state compensation for a paralyzed former Broward woman, claiming lawyers and lobbyists want to take more than their fair share of the cash.
House Speaker Marco Rubio and Senate President Ken Pruitt said in a blistering letter that the Fort Lauderdale law firm of Sheldon Schlesinger was trying to skirt state law to get it and a lobbyist nearly $700,000 more than lawmakers anticipated in the case of Minouche Noel, a former Fort Lauderdale resident maimed in a botched state surgery in 1989.

These trial lawyers and their lobbyist are totally out of control.  As you can read in the rest of the article, jump here, you can see that the legislature clearly laid out limits on how much the firm should be compensated.  The fact of the matter is that the victim in this case has been victimized twice – once in the botched surgery that left her paralyzed, and again by the greedy lawyers who retained ANOTHER lawyer to take more of the settlement money away from the victim and her family.  

Really, and truly out of hand.