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Sen. Inhofe Says US is 'Reaching a Revolution'

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lostlakehiker8/28/2009 12:46:01 pm PDT

re: #631 Creeping Eruption

UW report: WMC claims of excessive litigation in state are bogus

The report is linked as a PDF in the article.

The problem isn’t so much the total cost of awards handed down at trial as it is the necessity of settling out of court to keep down legal costs and hedge the prospect of an extravagant award, and the necessity of taking precautions in the form of extra tests and prescriptions to lay down a paper trail and placate patients who think that for everything under the sun there is not only a time, but a pill.

We didn’t have a jury trial to determine the cause of the Challenger crash. Technical questions are questions for technical types. At a minimum, there should be some sort of institutional check on the rogue MD’s who prostitute themselves to the plaintiff’s bar, and will say anything just so they get paid.