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 [...]
How Are The Special Interests Treating Us This Morning?
From WNYC News, we have the latest on the fight over medical malpractice caps in Albany. Assemblyman Richard Gottfried is allied with patient safety, but does not sound confident about the result of the coming budget negotiations. From Missouri, we get another reminder of the failure by tort “reformers” to focus on the source of [...]
Update On Affront To Victims of Medical Negligence
The Big Boys of the print media are catching on to the injustice that may result if proposed anti-consumer legislation is passed in Albany. First, the usually conservative Forbes Magazine gives a begrudging nod to a powerful, yet sober post from Eric Turkewitz, author of the New York Personal Injury Law Blog. The Forbes post [...]