Maryland doctors are asking to cancel their malpractice insurance. Apparently premiums are set to increase 40% next year.

But trial lawyers disagree. [I'm shocked, I say, shocked!]

But Mark Cohen, a medical malpractice attorney in Baltimore who said his 2-year-old daughter died late last year after receiving a lethally high dose of potassium through an intravenous drip, termed the situation less dire than doctors are saying. He predicted that doctors will not follow through on their threat because they would lose their hospital privileges and contracts with health care plans.

"It's scare tactics," Cohen said. "I think what they want to do is generate sympathy, but they will just generate anger. It's a money issue. It's not that they're not making money. It's just that they aren't making enough money."

*One a side note, law schools are churning out so many lawyers that by the year 2025, it is predicted that there will actually be more lawyers than humans.