High costs of insurance, Jury awards to medical malpratice victims

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Originally posted by valkyrie
Maybe I'm biased because I'm an attorney, but I don't practice personal injury law so I suppose I'm not that biased.

Anyway, I do not think that there should be limits on how much money a plaintiff can collect in a medical malpractice case. If a jury of ordinay people, after hearing the evidence, decides to award a plaintiff millions of dollars for pain and suffering, I think there shouldn't be a problem with that. I have no idea what it would be like to have a life-changing injury and I believe that people unfortunate enough to experience such a tragedy should get enough money so they never have to worry about money for the rest of their lives -- that's small compensation for a serious injury. Some of the caps I've heard mentioned are downright offensive -- how in the heck does $250,000 come even close to compensating someone for the pain and suffering related to, say, having the wrong leg amputated?

Politicians would only pass such laws because they are being lobbied by insurance companies. I think they are the ones at fault here, but I have to admit that I have a bias and tend to find the people running insurance companies to be evil and greedy. If they were less concerned with making tons of $$$ and more concerned with paying claims, I don't think we'd have so many problems with doctors quitting their jobs because they can't afford the insurance.

Well said.