Your colleague of course is indirectly shooing quality medical providers away from the State of Illinois.

I say its about time we have a litigation malpractice trial. I'd say all practicing lawyers that mismanage a trial which results in an unfavorable outcome for their client be penalized by having the oppurtunity to be sued by one of their colleagues.

The insurance industry can then make a real killing.

There is simply no statistical support for the assertion that doctors were fleeing the State of Illinois before damage caps were legislatively imposed, or that they would do so if a court finds those caps unconsitutitional.

Your suggestion that lawyers be held responsible for legal malpractice is the current state of the law. If the "mismanagement" you refer to is conduct that falls below the standard of care for an attorney handling a matter in litigation, and it causes a substantial loss to the client, the law will hold that attorney accountable for the client's loss. However, I simply don't follow your comment that "the insurance industry can then make a real killing from this." If the attorney is held liable, his legal malpractice insurance company will pay, not enjoy a "killing".