Tort “Reformers” Ignore Failed Disciplinary System That Fosters Deaths
In the City of Brotherly Love, a/k/a Philadelphia, a physician with a rich history of medical malpractice was allowed to keep practicing, while state disciplinary authorities failed to take action. And 8 murder charges later, a grand jury has found that this laissez-faire approach to Dr. discipline was actually a “complete regulatory collapse.” (ABA Journal). [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]