See, e.g., Wong v. Tabor, 422 N.E.2d 1979 (Ind. App. 1981).
2.
SmithW.T., Medical Malpractice: The Countersuit Fad, Trial12(12):45 (December 1976).
3.
Associated Press Release, “Lawyers Plan Battle on Malpractice Suits,”New Haven Register, August 13, 1979.
4.
See BirnbaumS.L., Physicians Counterattack: Liability of Lawyers for Instituting Unjustified Medical Malpractice Actions, Fordham Law Review 45(5):1003, 1029 [hereinafter cited as Birnbaum].
5.
This article takes no position on the proportion of malpractice claims which are in fact groundless. See Birnbaum, supra note 4, at 1103 (stating that the proportion of groundless claims, while difficult to determine from the available data, is probably small).
6.
615 P.2d 957 (Nev. 1980).
7.
Birnbaum, supra note 4, at 1034-35.
8.
Id. at 1041-42.
9.
Supreme Court of Kentucky, 80-SC-480-DG and 80-SC-501-DG, opinion filed June 16, 1981 (unpublished).
10.
Birnbaum, supra note 4, at 1021.
11.
Id. at 1014.
12.
For discussions of what constitutes favorable termination for purposes of a malicious prosecution claim, see RitterM., and BrooksS., Rx for Physicians: a Capsule on Countersuits, Western State University Law Review, 7(1):63, 65 (Fall 1979).
13.
Rome v. Drasin, supra note 9, at 11.
14.
156 Cal. Rptr. 745 (Cal. App. 1979).
15.
Tool Research and Engineering Corp. v. Henigson, 120 Cal. Rptr. 291 (Cal. App. 1975).
16.
Supra note 14, at 760.
17.
See ShawJ.W.Jr., Attorney's Liability, to One Other Than His Immediate Client, For Consequences of Negligence in Carrying Out Legal Duties, 45 ALR 3d 1181.
18.
Peerman v. Sidicane, 605 S.W.2d 242 (Tenn. App. 1980).
19.
607 P.2d 438 (Kan. 1980).
20.
Id. at 443, 445.
21.
Id. at 448-49.
22.
Berlin v. Nathan, 64 Ill. App. 3d 940, 381 N.E.2d 1367 (1978). See BerlinL., Counter-swing the Attorney to Stop Frivolous Lawsuits, Medicolegal News5(4):3–4, 14–15 (Fall 1977).
23.
“MD Seeking Damages From Lawyer, Medical Groups Back Appeal in Countersuit Case,”American Medical News, September 21, 1979.
24.
“High Court Refuses Physician's Appeal in Countersuit Case,”American Medical News, October 12, 1979.
25.
“Hospital Countersues in Malpractice Case,”American Medical News, July 18, 1980. “Physician Wins Countersuit,”American Medical News, January 30, 1981. “Dentist Wins Liability Countersuit,”American Medical News, April 20, 1979. “Countersuit Settlement Won by MD,”American Medical News, November 23, 1979.
