Florida Woman Loses Arms, Legs After Misdiagnosis

FOX NEWS ^ | 5/29/2009 | ak267

[verity]

Why did the jury feel sorry for the doctor?

[conservative cat]

In Ohio, a neglegent party must be found at least 51% responsible to be liable. If you have several parties involved who made mistakes, is possible that no one reaches 51%. Thus no one is held accountable.

Wow- WA is the opposite- if a person is even 2% liable, they can be sued with the rest of them. And get this- if the rest can't pay, the party with 2% liability will end up paying the WHOLE thing. We had a case where U-Haul was found to have about 5% liability in the case, and the settlement was in the millions. The guy who was 95% liable couldn't pay, so guess who was on the hook??

[Dianna]

Wow- WA is the opposite- if a person is even 2% liable, they can be sued with the rest of them.

Ky law works the same way. Basically, the jury can hear the whole story and decide themselves which party is liable for any percent of damages.

[pabianice]

Why did the jury feel sorry for the doctor?

They seemed to say, 'The wife is dead. Why ruin the doctor now?'

[Slings and Arrows]

But Kocik didn't write "kidney stone" on her diagnosis report.

If you didn't write it down, it didn't happen. First thing they taught me as an EMT.