Posts tagged tort reform

• Texas Tort Reform Harms the Public

  Beth Janicek | August 05, 2011 1:21 PM | 3 CommentsSan Antonio, TX Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Dr. Stefan Konasiewicz has beenin the news a lot this week. He is on trial this week in Minnesota on charges that he committed medical malpractice. The Plaintiff has accused Dr. Konasiewicz of...

• John Stossel’s Tort Reform Propoganda

  Beth Janicek | June 17, 2011 6:38 PM | 3 CommentsSan Antonio, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Last night I watched John Stossel’s show on the Fox Business Channel. The show focused on tort reform and Mr. Stossel’s claim that attorneys are destroying America. The entire program...

• Hot Coffee Spills The Secrets of Tort Deform

  Bryan Pope | June 27, 2011 6:00 PM | 2 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Tonight on HBO, the documentary movie Hot Coffee by Susan Saladoff, the former president of Public Justice will premier at 9 pm EST. This movie will finally provide a strong and persuasive response...

• Special Interest Money Flows Into Texas To Buy Corporate Immunity

  Bryan Pope | May 20, 2011 2:56 PM | 2 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I know it appears that all I want to talk about these days is the Tort Reform movement in Texas this Legislative Session. But people need to understand that decisions that will be made in the next...

• Tort Reform Heroes: Dr. Robert Zaleski

  Brooks Schuelke | May 07, 2009 6:21 PM | 2 CommentsAustin, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  One of my favorite books is Stephanie Mencimer's Blocking the Courthouse Door --- How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right To Sue. It's not one of my favorites...

• The Chamber - Denying Access to the Courthouse for Citizens, but Not Corporations

  Mary Alice McLarty | November 22, 2011 2:46 PM | 1 CommentDallas, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Last month. the U.S. Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) held its annual summit - a strategy session on eliminating Americans' access to the civil justice system. In its typical...

• Hospital Poses “Serious Threat to Patient Health and Safety”

  Beth Janicek | August 12, 2011 1:27 PM | 1 CommentSan Antonio, TX Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said in a letter written this week that Parkland Hospital of Dallas, Texas poses a “serious threat to patient health and safety”...

• Texas Legislators Attempting to Slam Courthouse Doors for Victims and Consumers

  Bryan Pope | May 18, 2011 5:28 PM | 1 CommentDallas, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Although the State of Texas faces a multimillion dollar budgetary shortfall, the public schools are threatened by massive cuts in teachers and resources, and the elderly, handicapped and the poor...

• Texas Tort Reform: A Good National Model?

  Beth Janicek | November 16, 2009 3:10 PM | 1 CommentSan Antonio, TX Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In 2003, the Texas Legislature passed medical liability reforms that capped non-economic damages for injured patients at $250,000, and brought the number of malpractice lawsuits down dramatically. ...

• Texas' Medical Malpractice Reforms Are Discriminating

  Brooks Schuelke | April 15, 2009 10:14 AM | 1 CommentAustin, TX Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In 2003, our medical malpractice reforms capped the amount of non-economic damages that plaintiffs could recover. There were predictions that the cap would be unfair, and there have been anecdotal...