This coming from an RN of 13 years and a 3L from KU law, the insurance companies and the physicians are the ones causing all the problems here! Unless there are some constraints put on these insurance companies, along with constraints on the lawsuits of individual physicians, this situation will have no remedy. I was very disappointed to see the tort reform law put in place. This type of reform only hurts the plaintiffs, the true victims in all this. From first hand knowledge, the physicians are getting more careless, more inconsiderate and more negligent as years go by. They are the ones that need to be held accountable for their actions. Insurance rates keep rising for physicians because they maintain a steady stream of negligence cases that the insurance companies just want to settle. Therefore they have to raise all physicians insurance rates just to keep up with all the money they pay out. They need to start putting a cap on physicians and start holding them accountable for their actions. Maybe there needs to be a direct link between malpractice claims and their license. The insurance companies are raping the physicians, but the physicians have not figured out yet that they are the ones who can stop all this. Not the plaintiffs who are the innocent bystanders in this.
This coming from an RN of 13 years and a 3L from KU law, the insurance companies and the physicians are the ones causing all the problems here! Unless there are some constraints put on these insurance companies, along with constraints on the lawsuits of individual physicians, this situation will have no remedy. I was very disappointed to see the tort reform law put in place. This type of reform only hurts the plaintiffs, the true victims in all this. From first hand knowledge, the physicians are getting more careless, more inconsiderate and more negligent as years go by. They are the ones that need to be held accountable for their actions. Insurance rates keep rising for physicians because they maintain a steady stream of negligence cases that the insurance companies just want to settle. Therefore they have to raise all physicians insurance rates just to keep up with all the money they pay out. They need to start putting a cap on physicians and start holding them accountable for their actions. Maybe there needs to be a direct link between malpractice claims and their license. The insurance companies are raping the physicians, but the physicians have not figured out yet that they are the ones who can stop all this. Not the plaintiffs who are the innocent bystanders in this.