Maggie's Farm

Malpractice lawsuits are bankrupting hospitals. Itt is clear that juries are not competent to hear these cases and that lawyers are too corrupt to bring them. It is unlikely that the most egregious case of malpractice in human history is worth more than a few hundred thousand dollars. $225 million is ridiculous. Our civil laws and courts are out of control.

I absolutely agree with you. But the industry doesn't really pay and if they do they go bankrupt.
In the city I was born in I went back to visit and wondered what happened to the big hospital there. Some years back some gang members brought one of their buddies there with a gunshot wound and took him to the front door after midnight. But the front door was locked after midnight since only the ER was open so the gang members left him on the steps where he died. His family sued and won a multi-million dollar settlement. The hospital couldn't pay it and went bankrupt. The building stood empty for a few years than they tore it down to build a super market. So a city of 150,000 people lost a hospital for what has to be a stupid law suit and I can guarantee you the gang member wasn't worth it and the family didn't use it well. So who benefits? The lawyers. This certainly isn't justice!!

Usually when you sue a company the smaller companies go bankrupt and people lose their jobs. The bigger companies raise prices, downsize (and people lose jobs) or cut costs some other way. Who gets punished?

Again I'll say that the tort laws need to be overhauled. there should be maximum limits or actual damages only. I good maximum value of the life of an individual would be no more than what the military pays the family of a soldier killed in war. Any more than that seems unfair. And they should end class action lawsuits totally. Also require the courts to spread these cases around, the lawyers like to use certain states that have a uneducated backwoods jury pool.