On the other hand tort reform is advocated by enormous contributions from an industry that wants to rake in all your premiums and encourages its lawyers to lie cheat and steal in order to make sure that those who are seriously injured by the negligence and deliberate acts of others get nothing for their damages from those who are at fault.
What is conservative about the plan for substituting wealthy entities the size of government for the justice system and enabling them to be able to avoid having juries decide how much harm their insured have done?
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John Edwards specialized in infant cerebral palsy and brain damage cases. He used dubious “experts” and pseudo science—later discredited—on gullible juries to fleece doctors, hospitals and their insurers out of tens of millions of dollars.
One of his more shameless, courtroom exhibitions is recounted here by the New York Times:
Ann Coulter writes in “Godless” on pages 185-186:
“As a result of such lawsuits, there are now more than four times as many cesarean sections as there were in 1970. But curiously, there has been no reduction in babies born with cerebral palsy. All those cesareans have, however, increased the mother’s risk of death, hemorrhage, infection, pulmonary embolism, and Mendelson’s syndrome, while also driving up the cost of medical care for every man, woman and child in America.”
There has to be a middle ground and that is what tort reform and limits on damages tries to accomplish. Otherwise, the judicial system is turned into a vehicle by greedy lawyers for robbing everybody.