Your personal experience does not a policy make. If she did die it would have been by accident, and is that worth 500 million to her husband?
-sm --- Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sam wrote: > > Average malpractice awards have tripled to $3.5 > > million since 1994, driving medical liability > > insurance premiums up over 500 percent. > > As I understand it, malpractice insurance isn't tied > to an individual > doctor. Rather, all doctors pay for the awards. > This means that each > doctor isn't held responsible for his/her actions. > It's like no fault > plus plus car insurance - when accidents happen all > doctors pay. > > This creates an incentive problem - bad doctors > aren't identified nor > do their costs go up any more than other doctors. > Therefore adding an > award cap just penalizes legitimate plaintiffs while > rewarding bad > doctors. > > Here's a great example of why there should be no > lawsuit cap: > > My cousin's wife was delivering their baby and > needed a Cesarean. > They gave her the drugs and started cutting but she > began screaming > and screaming and so they kept giving her more > drugs. The doctor was > panicking and didn't understand why the drug wasn't > working - > meanwhile the poor girl was bleeding all over the > place. > > My cousin starting looking under the bed at all the > tubes and found 2 > kinked. He pointed this out to the doctor who then > unkinked them > sending a massive dose of drugs into my cousin's > wife who promptly > passed out and almost died. > > Had she died, that would've definitely been a case > of malpractice. I > thought it still should be even though she didn't. > > A lawsuit cap puts a price on her life and doesn't > allow the courts to > send a message to Doctors that they better be > through and bad doctors > aren't tolerated. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=34 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:132822 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
