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Our Atlanta personal injury attorneys are constantly monitoring emerging rends in the legal field. Recently, a controversial test that is supposed to detect “malingering” is gaining popularity among defense experts in personal injury, workers’ compensation and other cases.<\/p>\n

The “Fake Bad Scale” is being offered by medical experts as evidence that plaintiffs are fabricating or exaggerating their pain or other medical symptoms.<\/p>\n

A few courts have ruled on the admissibility of the test, including three Florida courts that excluded testimony about it last year. In one of those cases, a trial judge in Hillsborough Country, Fla. ruled that the test was “not an objective measurement of effort, malingering or over-reporting of symptoms” because there was no manual for administering or scoring the test.<\/p>\n

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Our Atlanta personal injury attorneys are constantly monitoring emerging rends in the legal field. Recently, a controversial test that is supposed to detect “malingering” is gaining popularity among defense experts in personal injury, workers’ compensation and other cases. The “Fake Bad Scale” is being offered by medical experts as evidence that plaintiffs are fabricating or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury-wrongful-death","tag-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"\nNew Tactic By Defense Attorneys To Prejudice Claimants — Trial Attorney Blog — April 5, 2008<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our Atlanta personal injury attorneys are constantly monitoring emerging rends in the legal field. 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