[Young Rhino]

Notice not one word in the article about the primary culprit or the easiest remedy. The trial lawyers are responsible for this mess, but Rendell doesn't have the spine to push tort reform.

[End Times Sentinel]

The trial lawyers are responsible for this mess, but Rendell doesn't have the spine to push tort reform.

The trial lawyers, and I regret to say, the idiotic juries (particualry in Philadelphia) who award astronomical settlements to planitifs in medical cases.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Lawdoc]

How about the insurance carriers whose announced policy is not to settle even legitimate claims, but to take them all to trial. This is obviously an attempt to intimidate injured persons not to file claims against their doctors, who being human beings do occasionally make errors. Then those same insurance companies express outrage at the cost of defending claims (which they inflated by their tactics) and their media persons and lobbyists go to work trashing the lawyers and pushing tort reform.

Like any other profession, the legal profession has its share of unethical idiots. However, mainly they are just folks trying to do what their clients want.

Sorry, for the rant. I was a judge until this morning when I returned to private practice. Now I am at liberty to use my full 1st amendment privilege and wanted to get this comment off my chest. That said most doctors sued are sued over little or nothing and are rightly irritated. The remedy is for judges to have the fortitude to sanction the offending lawyer, not to change the system. The insurance companies are simply trying to improve their profitability by decreasing their risk while increasing their premiums.

Happy New Year to all!

[Mo1]

The trial lawyers are responsible for this mess, but Rendell doesn't have the spine to push tort reform.

Yep .. the trial lawyers will just keep getting richer and WE are the ones that end up paying