“As the Treasury Department considers a tax policy change that would allow trial lawyers to deduct their litigation expenses in contingency-fee cases, the American Medical Association and 90 medical organizations are urging Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to drop the proposal like a bad habit. ‘Changing the tax policy to allow trial attorneys to deduct court costs and other expenses would cost taxpayers $1.5 billion and increase the cost of health care in our nation,’ J. James Rohack, the immediate past president of the group, said in a written statement. ‘This change would encourage trial attorneys to file more lawsuits.’” [editor’s note: And were this the UAW & the Teamsters scrapping, it would also be a “labor-union battle” - SAT] (09/02/10)