re: #72 Flyers1974

How would you create tort reform that won’t screw people with damages above and beyond the cap?

It comes down to damages vs punitive awards.

Damages are economic in nature and are relatively straight forward to calculate (loss of work, disability, etc).

Punitive damages, pain and suffering and other such awards are what drive up the bills. That is where the focus needs to fall. These are intangibles and are the area that trial lawyers play up in terms of getting juries to soak “the rich doctors and their rich insurance companies” for some huge amount to teach them a lesson they won’t forget.

They just raise their prices and forget. You and I end up paying for it.