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Tort Reform Threatens Your Rights
Tort Reform is being proposed constantly these days in our Legislature. It is being proposed at virtually every session of our lawmaking body and would simply do you, the members of the public, much more harm than good.
Tort Reform is mainly publicized as necessary to relieve the pressures of medical malpractice rates that our doctors have to pay, and the rates that we have to pay for our very own health insurance. But, understand this: the influences behind the push for Tort Reform are the corporations which clearly include insurance companies. The bottom line is that the push is to boost corporate profits at the sacrifice of the rights of the "little person."
Doctors who have truly studied the situation understand that Tort Reform would do nothing to prevent unfair increase in their malpractice insurance rates. In actuality, insurance companies refuse to give doctors any guarantee whatsoever that Tort Reform would keep their rates down. Because of that, doctors are now getting the message that Tort Reform is not truly for them but for their insurance carriers.
Medical malpractice is not the only area that would be affected by Tort Reform. Tort Reform would tighten its grip on your basic automobile claims, including those where your very own insurance company denies you coverage that you paid good money for and where another person's company fails to make you a decent offer for what you have lost. Tort Reform also seeks to place cruel and unusual limits on what an injured person or injured person's family can be compensated for. The consequences of Tort Reform are limitless in its poisoning effects.
Medical malpractice is not the only area that would be affected by Tort Reform. Tort Reform would tighten its grip on your basic automobile claims, including those where your very own insurance company denies you coverage that you paid good money for and where another person's company fails to make you a decent offer for what you have lost. Tort Reform also seeks to place cruel and unusual limits on what an injured person or injured person's family can be compensated for. The consequences of Tort Reform are limitless in its poisoning effects.