Study: Four Out of 10 Medical Malpractice Cases are Groundless
National News • May 11, 2006
About 40 percent of the medical malpractice cases filed in the United States are groundless, according to a Harvard analysis of the hotly debated issue that pits trial lawyers against doctors, ...
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Subject: RE: RE: Tort reform is a debatable.
Posted On: May 12, 2006, 1:17 pm CDT
Posted By: dothetime
Comment:
"They all add up to tort reform will reduce the payouts and reduce insurance premiums."
Many human beings prefer that maimed human beings be justly compensated and that the estates of negligently killed patients be justly compensated. Medmal litigation produces less than 1% of expenses and now we find most of that produced accurate verdicts.
The error rate is probably less than that of wrongly convicted and acquitted criminal defendants--not to mention the baleful effect of plea bargaining for people who cannot "afford justice.".
Hey, because all that matters is expense, I've got two ideas. (1) Let's work on the other 99%. (2) You volunteer to reduce your medmal commissions or medmal underwriter salary by a few percent. Better you than maimed human beings and their dependents going without. Pony up bro'.
"Liberals" will ruin the system? There would be no American system at all without those liberal revolutionaries fighting conservative Royalists and Tories in (remember this?) the American Revolution. (It is not called the American Conservative Event). Access to justice is at stake here. Capping judgements is a way to bully individuals economically and deprive them of their day in court. And all for 1% of expense.
Get a conscience.
Subject: RE: RE: Tort reform is a debatable.
Many human beings prefer that maimed human beings be justly compensated and that the estates of negligently killed patients be justly compensated. Medmal litigation produces less than 1% of expenses and now we find most of that produced accurate verdicts.
The error rate is probably less than that of wrongly convicted and acquitted criminal defendants--not to mention the baleful effect of plea bargaining for people who cannot "afford justice.".
Hey, because all that matters is expense, I've got two ideas. (1) Let's work on the other 99%. (2) You volunteer to reduce your medmal commissions or medmal underwriter salary by a few percent. Better you than maimed human beings and their dependents going without. Pony up bro'.
"Liberals" will ruin the system? There would be no American system at all without those liberal revolutionaries fighting conservative Royalists and Tories in (remember this?) the American Revolution. (It is not called the American Conservative Event). Access to justice is at stake here. Capping judgements is a way to bully individuals economically and deprive them of their day in court. And all for 1% of expense.
Get a conscience.