Study Claims U.S. ‘Tort Tax’ Tops $9,800 Per Family

March 27, 2007

  • March 27, 2007 at 1:16 am
    Ima Sucker says:
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    He can hear dead fetus\’ calling on him to administer justice by lining his pockets with insurance company money.

    His Universal Health care will surely put an end to ambulance chasing lawyers like himself.

  • March 27, 2007 at 2:12 am
    Adirondacker says:
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    Impressive numbers. I guess I\’d like to read this report to get a better grasp on just where all these fugues are being calculated. Not sure if this is just another piece of political rhetoric of if this study has concrete evidence to back up their claims. Anyone?

  • March 27, 2007 at 2:41 am
    Gill Fin says:
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    make it past the legal department?

  • March 27, 2007 at 3:57 am
    hunter says:
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    Let\’s be honest. It\’s the greedy plaintiff attorney bar that\’s causing the bulk of this problem. Sitting in the barber shop I saw a TV ad for Jacoby & Myers. Involved in any type of accident? You may be entitled to compensation\”. Why does our society continue to allow scumbags to preach the religion of \”Accidents = Free Money\”? In 35 years of handling claims I have yet to see a medical study that says money makes injuries heal faster. Aside from taxing an already strained healthcare system by maximizing treatment for every injury case they handle, these bloodsuckers do nothing more than collect bills, try to make every injury seems worse than it really is, they sit back an take 30%. Nice system. Unfortunately the public is too stupid to realize that what they take in in settlement money goes out the door in increased medical and insurance premiums. Two things will never change: politicians and attorneys. They belly up to the social trough and have a good old time.

  • March 27, 2007 at 5:30 am
    Funkie says:
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    You can read the original report at http://www.pacificresearch.org and decide for yourself.

  • March 29, 2007 at 2:05 am
    Jo Joshua Godfrey says:
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    Please believe me not every victim gets justice, and without a proper legal system to keep this in line there will be more people like me. You only really know when you get there.

    I felt compelled to write my story, when I see this name Cigna I still shudder, but I have somehow learned to live with it for now. It has been 10 years now and I had Subscribed to Cigna Hmo for healthcare for almost 10 years. I was enrolled and treated in their No. Hollywood wholly owned clinic in California. I thought this was a wonderful Company until I got sick and needed treatment. For two years Cigna abused me, and only when I went to outside doctors and paid for it did I learn I had Lung Cancer, and I went on to prove they knew I was ill and they were simply not going to treat me and let me die. I went to the newspapers and fought them got treatment and thank God somehow I survived. It is a long story I never did get legal justice because I refused to arbitrate with these Criminals. You bet your bottom dollars these people are make no mistake Criminals, and somehow they are still making a dollar on other peoples pain. However I am sure justice will come.

    Last but not least I still have the response they filed over 10 years ago,that even if they committed Fraud, or a crime they could still compell Arbitration. A sad state of affairs dont you think?

  • March 29, 2007 at 8:48 am
    Bob Tukus says:
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    I do not know how the calculation of the tort tax was done, but it looks to me like there should be two calculations done: an economic valuation of a socail system with no tort system (we can imagine such a system, I suppose) and an economic valuation of the current tort system. Then subtract the two valuations. In a social system with no legal remedy for civil torts, I suspect manufacturers will take less care in designing products, polluters will run roughshod over the environment and our personal health, and salespeople will exaggerate claims of benefits for products. Injury to person and property is a pure economic loss (even though it is a financial gain for physicians and repair people). These calculations must be made to reach a reasonable assessment of an econmic tax due to the tort system.

    Let\’s look at the benefit of the lack of a tort system: careless surgeries where egregious errors are made, reckless drivers who will suffer no financial setback in case of an accident, construction projects with shoddy workmanship, leading to building failure (as happens in hurricane and earthquake zones). Those are all pure economic losses.



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