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 [...]
What Albany’s Tort “Reform” Push Ignores: Facts
In the debate on how to control the rising cost of healthcare, and legal costs associated with it, facts have never stood in the way of many supporters of tort “reform.” But it is particularly galling when that approach is used against the most defenseless of all of us: infants-and particularly those entering the world [...]