When The Silence From Tort “Reformers” Speaks Louder Than Words
When you look beyond the tired and twisted rhetoric employed by advocates for tort “reform,” you will notice an unsettling trend. They never address the source of what they label “the medical malpractice crisis”–negligent medical care that injures and kills patients. And so they walk around as if they somehow missed the news that a [...]
AARP Comes Out Against Medical Malpractice Caps in NY
ASSEMBLY MAKES RIGHT MOVE ON REJECTING MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CAPS Statement by Lois Wagh Aronstein AARP New York State Director March 15, 2011 AARP commends the leadership of Assembly Speaker Silver and the Assembly for putting forth a budget proposal that rejects the Governor’s proposal to severely restrict consumers’ ability to recover damages in medical malpractice [...]
The Tort “Reformers” Have No Clothes
Today, I continue to focus on the fallacy of the tort “reform” movement. Because as Eric Turkewitz reaffirms in today’s New York Personal Injury Law Blog, and as I have argued, tort “reform” does not save lives–reforming careless medical practices will. And so, the “reformers” prattle on about legislation to cap awards and prevent access to [...]