Re: [TruthTalk] Whats next?

[Jeff Powers]

Kay, just wait til Slade sees this. We have discussed this several times and the passage does not mean a literal eye for eye, etc., What it means is fair and just compensation to the injured person. ie: a tooth is worth $30, an eye $25,000, a kidney $1,000,000. Hey don't hold me to these numbers, I picked em out of the air! But I think the example is obvious. Jeff   Life makes warriors of us all. To emerge the victors, we must arm ourselves with the most potent of weapons. That weapon is prayer. --Rebbe Nachman of Breslov ----- Original Message ----- From: Slade Henson To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 20:34 Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Whats next? I don't pay for insurance. The easy fix is...refuse to settle. Go to trial and if the claim is truly meritless, it will lose. But, in my opinion, the doctor who removes the wrong kidney should be sued....and lose his license. Would it be Biblical to ask for his kidney in exchange....eye for an eye...tooth for a tooth...kidney for a kidney....:)   Kay -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of ShieldsFamily Sent: Thursday, 06 January, 2005 20.26 To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Whats next?   (Sorry Iz, I cannot support him on this one, either....:) You never file any claim, (tort claim or otherwise) with a dollar amount in it. You ALWAYS let the jury decide. Juries tend to award the big bucks.....Kay   PS I forgot to mention, juries don’t even usually get to the point of making a judgment.  Most medical malpractice suits are settled out of court to avoid the soaring costs.  The lawyers for the “injured” patients know this, and their whole strategy is just to get an out of court settlement—it’s almost guaranteed.  All you have to do is file a ridiculous claim and you’ll get several thousand dollars for it as a buy-out by the medical lawyers to avoid having to go through the whole trial.  It’s such a scam!  I was on a jury this past spring that had this exact thing happen.  It all adds up to impossible legal fees for no valid reason, and it harms you and me because we are losing medical care everywhere. It costs millions of dollars/year (from insurance and the gov’t, which we also pay) because doctors must order all kinds of tests as a defense in case there is a claim against them for some reason—it’s called defensive medicine.  This is why insurance costs are going through the roof.  Do you like paying exorbitant insurance rates??? (I don’t!) Izzy