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Re: Example of out of control US legal system From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Wed Apr 12 20:47:04 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Joseph Shaeffer: "Re: GEN: Patients, do you know who your doctor is?" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Problem patient" In reply to: D. Ashley Hill: "Example of out of control US legal system" Next in thread: Pamela Hollsten: "Re: Example of out of control US legal system" >From overlawyered.com ... "Please don't feed the trial lawyers" II Once again, attorneys upset that their profession is held up to ridicule would have much less of a problem if attorneys were more concerned about the behavior that led to the ridicule than about the ridicule itself. Evan Schaeffer reraises the issue of the ILR billboard, and posts the first photo of the campaign. Here's the full text: Please Don't Feed The Trial Lawyers Lawsuit Abuse Hurts Illinois. Support Legal Reform. http://www.instituteforlegalreform.org Entertainingly enough, the billboard (previously described as insulting) doesn't call lawyers names—it is simply based on the premise that the reader will already have a negative opinion of trial lawyers, which is hardly the fault of the ILR. The text of the billboard shows that Evan is mistaken when he accuses it of being aimed at juries: it is, rather, aimed at voters, as legal reform is an important election topic in 2006 judicial and legislative and gubernatorial elections, and the trial lawyers have their own campaign designed to get supporters of the litigation lobby in office and on the bench. (Evan may be correct that the billboard is "ugly and obnoxious," though I can't recall ever seeing a billboard that wasn't.) Evan also has some snide remarks about the quality and intelligence of comments supposedly left by Overlawyered readers, so if you do visit Evan's site, please be polite, even though the plaintiffs' lawyers who comment there may be rude to you personally. Art At Wed, 12 Apr 2006, D. Ashley Hill wrote: > >>From Orlando Sentinel online, regarding a nearby suburb of Orlando. I >do not know the details of this case, but $28,000,000 is a lot of money. >The college and medical students I teach read these articles, so very >few want to pursue ob/gyn. How can our society continue to afford to >shell out such huge awards, particularly for cases like this one? > >SANFORD -- An Altamonte Springs woman today won a $28 million jury >verdict in one of the biggest medical malpractice awards in Seminole >County history. > >Jeanette Davis, 42, a state employee, sued her gynecologist, Dr. Robert >Bowles, alleging he botched an operation. > >Davis, who had given birth to two children, suffered from minor >incontinence, but after Bowles operated in 2001, she was unable to >urinate naturally. > >Davis testified she must now catheterize herself two times a day, a >condition that will last the rest of her life. >A six-member panel deliberated two hours today before returning its >verdict. > >Bowles' attorney, Richard Womble, said the doctor was not negligent. He >said Bowles was monitoring Davis' progress, but then she stopped coming >to him for care. Womble said the award was far out of line with the >damage she suffered. He said he would ask for a new trial and that >Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson reduce the award. > >Ashley > >-- >D. Ashley Hill, MD >Associate Director >Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology >Florida Hospital Family Practice Residency > and Loch Haven Ob/Gyn Group >Orlando, Florida > -- art fougner, md Support Free Speech Buy Danish! Next message: Joseph Shaeffer: "Re: GEN: Patients, do you know who your doctor is?" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Problem patient" In reply to: D. Ashley Hill: "Example of out of control US legal system" Next in thread: Pamela Hollsten: "Re: Example of out of control US legal system"

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