Medical Malpractice

Have you ever WON a million dollars in a Medical Malpractice suit? A lot of Y/A say this is a factor.?

The majority of legal bills attached to insurance are Insurers defending themselves from their clients!! Have you ever won a medical malpractice suit ? How long did it take and how much did you get? How much did it cost?

Public Comments

1. Most of the injured parties die before he suit is over, letting the perps off the hook.
2. No. Never sued.
3. Give john Edwards a call; he's an ambulance chaser and is looking for work.
4. No I've not won a medical malpractive suit. Maybe if we wrote laws capping the awards we can save our healthcare system and our country.
5. "The majority of legal bills attached to insurance are Insurers defending themselves from their clients!!" ...yeah...and? These are the same insurance companies that insure doctors and hospitals, who they charge out the ass. A hospital's #1 expense is salaries. A hospital's #2 expense is malpractice insurance.
6. Actually the biggest problem is bankruptcies. Bankruptcies cause the medical provider to lose money. When they do that they raise prices to make up the losses. Businesses do it as a result of shoplifting as well. Best way to prevent higher prices in retail is to reduce loss from shoplifting. the best way to prevent higher prices in medical services is to prevent bankruptcies. More people having health insurance does exactly that, so does having more primary care physicians. #1 expense is labor #2 expense to any business is loss of product or failure of customers to pay(as in filing bankruptcy). Tort reform might knock $2 off a $10,000 hospital bill and leave you at the mercy of bad doctors.
7. That is even bigger BS than "Bush kept us safe." It boggles my mind how people fall for that idiocy. My cousin is a doctor. He is constantly bombarded with offers from pharmaceutical companies asking him to prescribe their drugs.
8. No but you are only thinking about one side of the problem. The other side is that Drs. are forced to order unnecessary tests in order to protect themselves from law suits. An example is MRIs and CTs for anyone who comes in for a headache. Multiply this across the US and you come up with a huge expense and are only talking about one example. This drives up costs for the health care provider and results in exorbitant premiums.
9. Unless we have tort reform, health care will be a mess!! With that said, since the majority of Congress is made up of ambulance chasing attorneys, that will NEVER change!!! I feel for doctors! It's the dumb arse patients who want to make a buck off the doctor for their own fat and mental issues!!!!
10. How malpractice insurance works...Dr buys a lot to cover in case needed paying extremely high premium... He is sued for something...the insurance company pays out before court...the Dr's premiums rise even higher....And in cases of large payouts sometimes the Dr has to quit practicing because of cost of this insurance. Then there is the cost of paying a very high premium and never needing the insurance.
11. I never have. The whole heath care mess has been exasperated by greedy attorneys and free loading leaches looking for a fast buck. On the other hand if the Obama-rama bill goes through no on can win a suit against Uncle Sugar; the government will own it...so the best trip we can take is to reform the health care system we have and let the free market keep prices low. The illegals have free health care already since they use the E.R. as their private walk in clinic.
12. I agree. There are lawyers on both sides of tort law and the insurance industry has done an excellent job with brainwashing Americans with this myth. I know too many personal injury attorneys to believe it. These big cases happen a few times in a career if they're lucky. Most of the time, it's auto accidents and worker's comp cases. I think it's a states' rights issue and I'm just leaving it there. If states wish to enact tort reform, they can. Here in Tennessee, we don't need tort reform. We have juries.