Re: Tort Reform
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu Aug 12 15:08:24 2004
first crack in the berlin wall of torts is asbestos ... the american
bar association has opposed the atla on this issue recently ... one
never knows ...
art
At Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Charlie Chambers wrote:
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>Our biggest barrier is that the for the most part, the lawyers are the
>ones making the laws. Kind of hard to be the one to shut the cookie jar
>if you are in it up to your elbow.
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>Charlie Chambers
>Hood River, OR
>cchamber@alumni.rice.edu
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>"No matter where you go...
> there you are."
>Dr. Buckaroo Banzai
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>On Aug 12, 2004, at 12:14 PM, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote:
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>> Kind of proves those nasty plaintiff-hired physicians are not the
>> cause of
>> lawsuitmania. We have met the enemy, and it is the liars, er, lawyers
>>
>> Richard Chudacoff, MD
>>
>> A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
>>
>> Benjamin Franklin
>>
>> Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it
>> had an
>> entrance.
>> [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]
>> -Desiderius Erasmus
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of art
>> fougner, md
>> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:06 PM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>> Subject: Re: Tort Reform
>>
>> Op Ed in SF Examiner 8/04/2004
>>
>> Is common sense dead?
>> By Steven B. Hantler | Special To The Examiner
>> Published on Wednesday, August 4, 2004
>>
>> In 1996, Philip K. Howard published "The Death Of Common Sense," which
>> told the devastating effects of lawsuit abuse on our American way of
>> life, much of which is instigated by trial lawyers who file frivolous
>> or
>> unwarranted lawsuits.
>>
>> That book, and Howard's work since its publication, sends a wake-up
>> call
>> to all Americans.
>>
>> I've been thinking of that book this summer as I visit public swimming
>> pools where diving boards have been removed out of liability fears, and
>> when I hear stories of people afraid to umpire Little League games out
>> of fear of being sued for a "bad call."
>>
>> Lawsuits, and the threat of lawsuits, are hurting our economy and
>> distorting our way of life. Our quality of life is being diminished,
>> and a good case can be made that liability fears have kept life-saving
>> medical and safety innovations off the market.
>>
>> Has America gone lawsuit crazy? Absolutely.
>>
>> Consider just a few stories from this year. In New York City, a
>> fifth-grade teacher hurt his knee playing ball in the school gym. He
>> sued -- the floor "was slippery and not level." Payoff: $1.2 million.
>> Last year the city paid $500 million in claims, up from $21.4 million
>> in
>> 1978.
>>
>> In Greenwich, Conn., a man hurt himself while sledding on public
>> property. He sued. Payoff: $6 million. As a result town officials
>> may
>> ban sledding. The Christian Science Monitor reported in June that
>> "increasingly, high schools and colleges are 'grounding' teams" as they
>> battle lawsuits.
>>
>> We might be appalled at these developments, but we should not be
>> surprised. Our legal environment encourages Americans to sue.
>>
>> Common Good, a group that keeps tabs on lawsuit abuse and of which
>> Howard is chairman, cites one case in which a driver was involved in a
>> crash with another driver who "was allegedly talking on a Cingular
>> Wireless phone."
>>
>> Driver No. 1 launched a lawsuit -- against Cingular.
>>
>> We slip and fall, we sue. We eat too many French fries and gain too
>> much weight, we sue. The road to personal wealth, many Americans have
>> apparently concluded, leads straight through the courthouse door. The
>> U.S. Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform reports that in a typical
>> year, a lawsuit is filed every two seconds. The institute also reports
>> that there are more lawyers in West Los Angeles than in all of Japan.
>>
>> Lawsuit mania is costing us more than our diving boards. It is also
>> costing us jobs and innovation, and it is driving medical costs through
>> the roof and doctors out of practice.
>>
>> Some economists estimate that the cost of "defensive medicine" --
>> often-unnecessary procedures that help insulate doctors from lawsuits
>> --
>> now exceeds $100 billion. That helps add, in some states, $2,000 to
>> the
>> cost of having a baby.
>>
>> Lawsuit fears have stymied or destroyed promising research. According
>> to an article in Science magazine, two companies delayed research on an
>> AIDS vaccine, while another company abandoned a promising approach
>> altogether, due to liability concerns. Volvo will not market its
>> integrated child booster seat in the United States because of the
>> threat
>> of abusive lawsuits.
>>
>> Yes, lawsuit abuse is a life-and-death issue. The big winner is, of
>> course, the plaintiff's bar, dubbed "Trial Lawyers, Inc." by the
>> Manhattan Institute think tank. According to the Manhattan Institute,
>> Trial Lawyers, Inc. receives about $40 billion in fees a year, which
>> is
>> 50 percent more than the sales revenue of Microsoft or Intel, and
>> double
>> that of Coca-Cola.
>>
>> Trial Lawyers, Inc. also greases the political skids in order to
>> thwart
>> reform. Its political action committee contributed nearly $3 million
>> to
>> congressional campaigns in 2002, the Manhattan Institute says.
>>
>> Polling shows that most Americans want significant legal reform. Most
>> of us want our diving boards back and we want the search for AIDS
>> vaccines and other life-saving innovations to accelerate. But until
>> there is reform, that's simply not going to happen. It's time for the
>> voting public to take a stand in favor of common sense.
>>
>> Steven B. Hantler is assistant general counsel at DaimlerChrysler
>> Corp.
>> and a trial lawyer.
>> http://www.sfexaminer.com/article/index.cfm/i/080404op_hantler
>>
>> art
>>
>> --
>> art fougner, md
>> ich bin ein New Yorker
>>
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