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Who would argue against someone who is TRULY harmed by another’s negligence being compensated? But the legal profession is filled with people like John Edwards who got rich based on fraudulent lawsuits and shakedowns that we ALL have to pay for. His client supposedly suffered brain damage because she didn’t get c-sectioned in time. Now with c-sections being way more common, CP should be all but gone. But there hasn’t been any change in the incidence. It was a garbage lawsuit, brought by grieving parents and used by a POS like Edwards to extract $ for himself. All based on lies.

But the legal profession is filled with people like John Edwards who got rich based on fraudulent lawsuits and shakedowns that we ALL have to pay for.

You will be happy to know then that the examples of John Edwards and the truly frivolous and/or fraudulent lawsuits are very rare. However they make a good story, so it is made to appear to the public that such things are common. The resulting outrage makes getting legislation that stacks the deck against deserving plaintiffs fairly easy to work through the Statehouse.

It would be more correct to say that over 90% of attorneys would have to turn down this case if it was offered to them, as they wouldn't have the financial resources to bankroll the plaintiff beyond the initial round of discovery.

Now with c-sections being way more common, CP should be all but gone. But there hasn’t been any change in the incidence. It was a garbage lawsuit, brought by grieving parents and used by a POS like Edwards to extract $ for himself. All based on lies.

Once again, you are proving your ignorance and emotionalism. Your statement to the effect that the position that CP can be caused by medical mistakes during birth is a lie, is itself a lie. John Edwards is wrong about many, many things, but that is not one of them.

As a medical malpractice DEFENSE attorney for over 20 years, I DEFENDED my share of CP cases. Never did we take the position that CP cannot be caused by birth trauma.

Birth asphyxia is a known cause of CP. There are other known causes. Extensive studies in the 80s found that about 20% of CP cases are caused during birth. The No.1 cause of CP was "unknown."

I defended CP cases by taking the position that while no knowledgeable person would deny that CP CAN be caused by hypoxia during birth, the cause of this child's CP was something else. I had as my expert the premier pediatric neurologist in Houston. Please tell me what you know that he didn't?

It must be sad to be so ignorant about things on which you have such strong opinions. Could your opinions possibly be wrong?