Tort reform. Little original content.
Aug. 16th, 2004 02:21 pmScare tactics [by way of the incomparable Rivka ages ago] is probably the best of the articles I've found; it's got a decent chunk of linkery going on as well. One of those links goes to the Snopes page on tortuous torts, which itself contains a link to a description of the much-touted McDonalds coffee case.
On the medical side,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rain_luong's got a Bob Herbert editorial from June, Sadly, No! pokes holes in Judson Cox, and Jesse "No Relation" Taylor of Pandagon does the same to today's Moonie Times article. And of course lots of doctors who have problems with malpractice insurance aren't the most reliable practitioners of medicine. To quote Kevin Drum again, "maybe ambulance chasing lawyers aren't the biggest cause of malpractice suits after all. Maybe malpractice is. Just sayin." Update: and, in a striking case of finding my own bloody links instead of scraping them from other people's blogs, the Charleston Gazette ran an interesting series of articles on malpractice back in early 2001.
Which isn't to say that there aren't frivolous lawsuits. I seem to recall Fox News launching one against Al Franken last summer. But, like the Fox News lawsuit, or the case of the kid who tried to get a Harrier jet out of Pepsi, most of these cases are dismissed quickly.
The first person to use the words jacuzzi cases will be treated in the same fashion as the first person to say first and fourth most liberal senators or voted against the $87 billion to fund troops in Iraq [follow the link, then do a find-in-page for 87 billion] in my presence. I'll even say "please" and "thank you."
On the medical side,
rain_luong's got a Bob Herbert editorial from June, Sadly, No! pokes holes in Judson Cox, and Jesse "No Relation" Taylor of Pandagon does the same to today's Moonie Times article. And of course lots of doctors who have problems with malpractice insurance aren't the most reliable practitioners of medicine. To quote Kevin Drum again, "maybe ambulance chasing lawyers aren't the biggest cause of malpractice suits after all. Maybe malpractice is. Just sayin." Update: and, in a striking case of finding my own bloody links instead of scraping them from other people's blogs, the Charleston Gazette ran an interesting series of articles on malpractice back in early 2001.Which isn't to say that there aren't frivolous lawsuits. I seem to recall Fox News launching one against Al Franken last summer. But, like the Fox News lawsuit, or the case of the kid who tried to get a Harrier jet out of Pepsi, most of these cases are dismissed quickly.
The first person to use the words jacuzzi cases will be treated in the same fashion as the first person to say first and fourth most liberal senators or voted against the $87 billion to fund troops in Iraq [follow the link, then do a find-in-page for 87 billion] in my presence. I'll even say "please" and "thank you."