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Submitted by Art Fougner MD, Sep 1, 2007 09:09

"We're coming in with an open mind," he said, adding that his group would protect the "rights of medical negligence victims."


Pardon me while I take a healthy dose of an anti-emetic. Were the trial lawyers truly interested civil justice reform, there'd be a fund for all neurologically-impaired infants instead of the legal lotto system which rewards mega-millions jackpots to plaintiffs' attorneys (yes, they get theirs right off the top), a structured award for a few severly handicapped, and a fat goose egg for the rest - many with equal or more severe disabilities than those who won a judgement/settlement.

Why would Trial Lawyers, who clearly have a vested interest in maintaining an expensive, inequitable, flawed system, want to upset their applecart?

Moving beyond the issue on caps on awards - caps on NON-economic "pain and suffering" damages, and not as they would have the public believe, on Economic "Care and Feeding" awards, how about focusing on ways to bring Science to the courtroom and leave the dog and pony "Queen for a Day" show for Boston Legal. Unfortunately, with a now vulnerable Governor and an Assembly Speaker who's a fervent opponent of tort reform, I don't hold out much hope for real Civil Justice Reform.

I hope I'm proven wrong.

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