interesting suggestion. 

--- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Kat,
> 
> One thing that might be a solution to the
> malpractice situation is
> review boards for malpractice claims, rather than
> liability caps.  Since
> the article you cited says that 40% of malpractice
> claims are unfounded,
> that means that around 60% _do_ have merit.  In the
> example I cited in
> response to your original post, the machinist and
> the middle school
> student who were injured through negligence would
> then have recourse
> beyond a $250,000 - $750,000 cap.
> 
> Kendall 
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathleen Salkin [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:35 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [C-PALSY] Study on Malpractice Suits Finds
> Many are Without
> Merit
> 
> A Harvard University study finds that up to 40% of
> all malpractice  
> suits are groundless:
> 
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12723303/
> 
> This bolsters my opinion that we badly need
> liability caps in the  
> US.  There are many towns in NC that don't have
> doctors to deliver  
> babies because they have to pay such high
> malpractice insurance  
> premiums.  I think we need restraints of damage
> awards.
> 
> Now I'm off to go back to work.  Ugh!
> 
> Kat
> 
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