Recent Posts in Tort Reform Category
Posted on Mar 27, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Healthcare is expensive, as is medical insurance. Experts have examined the origins of these costs and come up with numerous suggestions for how to reduce them. Tort Reform isone of the most ...
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Posted on Dec 4, 2011 By Scott Distasio
The constant drum beat for tort reform relies heavily on the claim that personal injury attorneys and medical malpractice lawsuits are the cause for the out of control costs of today’s ...
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Posted on Oct 31, 2011 By Scott Distasio
There have been a number of blog entries on this site about how tort reform laws do not seem to do what they are meant to do. Studies show that instead of lowering healthcare costs and improving ...
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Posted on Oct 18, 2011 By Scott Distasio
A new study of Texas's tort reform by Public Citizen indicates it does not do what politicians promised it would. Enacted in 2003, the law puts limits on the money victims receive in medical ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By Scott Distasio
Texas Governor Rick Perry claims the purpose of a tort reform bill he recently signed into law in Texas is designed to reduce the number of “frivolous lawsuits.” According to The ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2011 By Scott Distasio
In 2003, Florida legislature passed a law overhauling the state's medical malpractice statutes. As part of this law, the legislature capped the amount of pain and suffering a damages that could be ...
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Posted on Jul 18, 2011 By Scott Distasio
Former White House correspondent and political columnist Margaret Carlson recently wrote about tort reform on Bloomberg.com . She uses real life examples to demonstrate how tort reform is really ...
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Posted on Jun 29, 2011 By Scott Distasio
Memes are ideas or beliefs that spread through a culture. They carry cultural ideas and practices through every form of communication. The problem with memes is sometimes the information is simply ...
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Posted on Jun 27, 2011 By Scott Distasio
In 1992 people around the world were introduced to Stella Liebeck, who was burned when she spilled McDonald's coffee in her lap and subsequently sued the restaurant for her burns. The lawsuit ...
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Posted on Apr 7, 2011 By Scott Distasio
Advocates of Tort reform are constantly making the claim that Medical Malpractice Attorneys are not needed to police the medical community because they police themselves. Linda Shrieves of the Orlando ...
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