The crisis meant lawyers and clients perhaps saw a chance to
make money by suing Quirónsalud, says the company's
in-house lawyer Isaac Millán
Quirónsalud, Spain's largest private healthcare
provider with more than 70 medical centres across the country, has
to deal with a considerable amount of contentious matters and
consequently, the company maintains a close relationship with a
number of law firms. Isaac Millán, the company's
in-house legal adviser, says that a significant proportion of
litigation, though not all of it, is passed to external
lawyers.
He adds that time constraints, as well as the need for
specialist support are the main reasons why contentious work is
often handed to law firms. "We have seven in-house lawyers but
always outsource litigation, or at least 75 per cent of it,"
he says. "We outsource litigation because of the amount of
time such cases require and because we rely heavily on the
expertise and experience of external law firms."
