Vanquish
Vanquisher of shills
- Aug 14, 2009
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Every single state in the union has detailed, sophisticated laws dealing with frivolous claims. Bar associations have taken the lawyer hatred so seriously we have INSANE professional ethics rules that are a knee-jerk reaction to the unfettered hatred of lawyers that some people (apparently in this thread) have.
Caps on awards dont take into account REALITY.
Let's think about this... (Im probably typing this for nothing since my opponents in this thread seem to like to step over my arguments...but here goes)
Say you have a young man...let's make him a doctor...who through no fault of his own contracts a terminal disease. He goes to the doctor and gets misdiagnosed. The young guy has always gone for check ups...has a family with 3 kids and a wife...as well as an elderly father he takes care of.
He keeps going back to the same doctor year after year for his check up and keeps trusting this doctor. Finally after the disease he has has progressed to a terminal stage, his doctor finally diagnoses what he should have 4 or 5 years before. It's too late. There's nothing that can be done but make the young man comfortable. It could have easily been caught, but due to doctor error it never was.
The guy was making 500,000 per year at age 26. He could have easily increased his income to a million per year within the next 10 years. His life expectancy was 76.
So that's 10 years at 500k and another 40 years at 1 million. Plus interest.
Then tack on the pain and suffering.
Then compensate the wife and children for the loss of their father.
You're honestly telling me that they should have their compensation capped?
I tell ya...tort reformers slay me. You love the "free market" until it bites you on the ass.
BTW....that's not a hypo...that's a real case I was a part of.
Caps on awards dont take into account REALITY.
Let's think about this... (Im probably typing this for nothing since my opponents in this thread seem to like to step over my arguments...but here goes)
Say you have a young man...let's make him a doctor...who through no fault of his own contracts a terminal disease. He goes to the doctor and gets misdiagnosed. The young guy has always gone for check ups...has a family with 3 kids and a wife...as well as an elderly father he takes care of.
He keeps going back to the same doctor year after year for his check up and keeps trusting this doctor. Finally after the disease he has has progressed to a terminal stage, his doctor finally diagnoses what he should have 4 or 5 years before. It's too late. There's nothing that can be done but make the young man comfortable. It could have easily been caught, but due to doctor error it never was.
The guy was making 500,000 per year at age 26. He could have easily increased his income to a million per year within the next 10 years. His life expectancy was 76.
So that's 10 years at 500k and another 40 years at 1 million. Plus interest.
Then tack on the pain and suffering.
Then compensate the wife and children for the loss of their father.
You're honestly telling me that they should have their compensation capped?
I tell ya...tort reformers slay me. You love the "free market" until it bites you on the ass.
BTW....that's not a hypo...that's a real case I was a part of.