Advocates of tort reform make spectacular and deceitful claims about the benefits of tort reform. They claim that capping the awards that victims of personal injuries can receive will revive the economy, lower insurance costs, and prevent people who suffer catastrophic damages such as trauma to the brain or spine, and severe electrical burns, from hitting some sort of lawsuit jackpot.
The one thing that these tort reformers will never say is that they’re really seeking another form of corporate welfare. If the wrongdoers and their insurance companies don’t have to pay for all the damages that they cause, then the burden of caring for their victims will fall on someone else, and that someone will be the American taxpayer.
Bad faith insurance companies make a habit of refusing to pay claims that they clearly owe. Our firm has made significant recoveries in many bad faith cases, but the costs of caring for too many other victims have fallen on the taxpayers. All of us wind up paying for medical care, housing, and everything else that a victim needs. Meanwhile, the tort reformers continue to spread their lies, largely because they have no facts to support their claims.
Tort reform advocates know that they can gain sympathy for their cause by demonizing lawyers and the legal system. But, while millions of Americans now believe that “skyrocketing” medical malpractice costs are driving doctors out of business, those same misinformed believers are strangely silent about the 100,000 wrongful deaths that the medical system causes every year.
A recent report entitled “Tort Reforms Unlikely To Cut Health Care Costs” found that no valid study has ever supported the claim that tort reform will reduce medical malpractice insurance costs. Still, the efforts to gain more corporate welfare go on.
Many voices are speaking the truth about tort reform, but it’s tough to hear them over the shouts for more corporate welfare. In her book, “Blocking The Courthouse Door: How The Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right To Sue”, Stephanie Mencimer details this shameful effort by many shameless people to bring more welfare to corporations and insurance companies.
The lies from the tort reform movement have made many Americans believe that our Founders had a destructive idea when they guaranteed every American the right to a trial by jury. The truly destructive idea is that corporate welfare, disguised as tort reform, would allow corporations to inflict damages on their own customers without having to accept responsibility such as when SUVs roll, when workers inhale deadly chemicals, or when dangerous drugs cause birth defects.
Educated citizens are the most effective line of defense against the tort reform movement and its goal of even greater corporate welfare. Be informed. Stand up for your rights. And if you have suffered harm, we are personal injury attorney who are here to help and we have the record to prove it.
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Richard Alexander
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