Obama Open to Reining in Medical Suits
June 15, 2009
Topic: Miller Weisbrod, LLP Blog
Apparently, President Obama is considering restrictions to lawsuits against doctors. LINK. Although the general idea sounds easy (getting rid of junk lawsuits, and protecting doctors against run-away juries), the reality is much different.
First, limits on damages don't affect the junk suits - they only affect the really big cases, which of course aren't junk cases. In other words, the suit of "they served me bad food in the hospital" is never worth enough to be affected by a cap on damages. The victims affected by the cap are children crippled from a birth injury - for whom a lifetime of medical care is very expensive. Or families who have lost a loved one due to medical negligence, who have lost a lifetime of care and nurturing and support. Or the elderly, who are sometimes terribly mis-treated in nursing homes. Putting limits on the potential recoveries for those families just adds financial injury to the already existing emotional and medical injury.
Getting rid of junk lawsuits is a good idea. Putting caps on serious cases does nothing to get rid of junk lawsuits - it merely punishes the victims of terrible injuries. Such an idea doesn't help doctors either - should they ever find themselves the victim of medical negligence.
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