If you support tort reform, would you also support the following?

A lawsuit is not a price control.

I would support Tort legislation saying how much you could sue Exxon for or Rite Aid.

Besides, What will you do when you dont have a doctor to treat you?

http://ny-medical-malpractice.org/topics/malpracti...

http://www.unc.edu/the/archives/malpractice.pdf

No. Lawyers have exploited the adversarial system with lay juries to get high dollar awards for bad results, not negligence or malpractice. Standards of care and all proper diligence do not matter when someone is dead or in a wheelchair. A bad result is not always a result of poor care and in fact rarely is.

Limiting jury awards is not the proper way to reform medical torts. I think two things should be done.

1. Take awards/punishment out of the jury's hand and have them only find fault, negligence or culpability.

2. Have an independent panel advise the jury on standard of care and how the facts of the case relate to standards of care. Sort of like having the Judge call a witness that then either advocate could cross examine.

what I want for tort reform is a requirement that cases be heard by judges who are also medical experts, that public health scientists be called to testify about the probability of outcomes, and that jurors be required to have enough science understanding to follow the logic of proof.

Is logic, fairness, and honest statistics too much to require?

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Or shall we continue to empower the John Edwards types to twist and distort cause and effect in an attempt to wring out damages for what is actually just bad luck??

tort reform benefits everyone, including customers/patients who end up paying for a companies or a doctors insurance, unfortunately there are too many greedy people looking to get rich off lawsuits

Yes, $10 trillion on each drug and gallon of gas at the max. There ya go

No. for example you could say compensatory damages are ok but punishment should be left to the criminal system, so no punitive damages. That is just a difference in policy, and punitive damages are a windfall.

Yes, all of those things are consistent with liberalism

I want medical malpractice suits simply terminated, ended, kaput. It is legalized extortion.

You post the dumbest questions.

Go back to eating your gruel in your mother's basement you squid.

Doctors need to pay for their misdeeds as they have many.