[bkopto]

Table at the link shows the highest payout as follows:

January 2012 Florida $168m Brain damage following surgery.

Others regard birth injury. Who in their right mind would want to be a neurosurgeon or obstetrician?

When such services become scarce, thank your local trial lawyer and female jury pool.

[Jacquerie]

All problems will be solved when Chairman Obama and his glorious commissars eliminate the evil health insurance companies that rip off the peasants.

[bigheadfred]

There really should be a cap on awards like this. More along the lines of how much income that person would have lost in a normal working life, if the damage prevents them from working.

[formosa]

I wonder how many of these cases were trumped up by ambulance chasers? There are individuals in this country who actually make a living from suing people.

[dragnet2]

Watch big Pharma in the next 15 years go into a tail spin, as millions of the well insured, who are insured enough to buy expensive medications and go to the doctor every week, who are now in their 70s 80s and 90s, all die off..

What's left?

Millions of part time workers with no health insurance, and millions more with near worthless health insurance. These people will no way have the money for all the health procedures and expensive medications they're parents were used to receiving..

Big Pharma nose dives in the next decade.