Caps Wouldn't Lower Premiums

Caps Wouldn't Lower Premiums
Neil H. Ferstand

May 11 2004 - Hartford Courant

In his recent work "Real World Torts," University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Marc Galanter says, "Unfortunately, much of the debate on the civil justice system relies on anecdotes, atrocity stories and unverified assertion rather than analysis of reliable data."

Not much seems to have changed here in Connecticut and across the United States, despite the enactment of broad tort reforms in the 1980s and, more recently, within the last four years. Tort reform has not delivered the reductions in rates so often promised by its proponents. Insurers are relentlessly in search of increased profits. Doctors who have long sought to escape accountability (witness their overwhelming control of the disciplinary process) are desperately trying to regain our awe of their abilities and sympathy for their insurance premium plight.

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....as well as empty rhetoric, empty promises of rate cuts, and empty platitudes to boost profits at the expense of the real victims of "tort reform"--the plaintiffs (not the lawyers who represent them). Trial lawyers are just being made scapegoats in the insurance industry's (and corporate America's) all-out crusade to blame the victims of their greed.

...truer words have never been spoken. Unforunately, the insurance industry joined with the corporate media have more money and the availability of air time then injured victim's.

But will the media hear better if it said in the Hartford paper?

HELLO N Y TIMES, BOSTON GLOBE, LA TIMES, WASH POST, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, NETWORKS.......

CAN WE ALL SAY TOGETHER THAT BUSH"S HEALTH CARE COST SAVINGS IS SILLY IF ALL IT IS IS A CAP ON LAW SUITS?

Man - it is yelling into the wind!

:-)