2007-11-01 07:43:50 · 17 answers · asked by realitycheck 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Vulture
If he were strictly a class action attorney who truly helped those in a REAL victim role I would respect what he does (assuming he charges a reasonable percentage)
But what his kind does is force the prices up on the rest of Americans by suing ANYONE for ANY perceived wrong...he is not asking for reform, he only asks for compensation...then Wait's for the next victim...
Why do you think health care is so expensive...google malpractice insurance rates...it's eye opening.
Indeed, Jury Verdict Research, of Horsham, Pa., reports that nearly half of all awards in medical malpractice cases topped $1 million in 1999, the most recent period for which data are complete. Simply settling a claim cost an insurer $650,000, up 30 percent in a single year.
* St. Paul said it paid out catastrophic sums -- more than $1 million -- twice as often in 2000 as in 1999: 54 cases versus 27.
* In 2000, a Philadelphia jury socked four physicians and two hospital defendants for $100 million for bad outcomes suffered by a baby born at 26 weeks of gestation.
* A Texas jury returned an $11 million malpractice verdict and a West Virginia jury tried to award $2 million to a plaintiff despite a state cap of $1 million.
Not surprisingly, these areas of the country have seen some of the most staggering rises in physician liability insurance premiums. PHICO bumped the price to Texas doctors 83 percent last year. West Virginia obstetricians paid an average of $75,155 in 2001, while their colleagues next door in Kentucky were charged only $41,661.
Obstetricians, neurosurgeons, emergency physicians and other high-risk specialists have absorbed the brunt of the blow. It can cost an ob-gyn in South Florida $209,000 a year to insure for delivery of babies.
2007-11-01 07:54:49 · answer #1 · answered by Erinyes 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
There are a few actual honest trial attorneys, I know a few.
But Edwards type?
Pure trash.
2007-11-01 12:38:51 · answer #2 · answered by scottdman2003 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Wow, you extremely dug back contained in the closet for this very, very, previous , dusty tale that's deader than a door nail now ... LOL ! guy, Republicans are realllllly achieving for something... beings they lost two times to Obama ... LOL ! national Enquirer isn't owned by using politicians ( Dem or Rep ! ) like one in all those lot of others newspapers, radio and television ... the two.
2016-09-28 03:36:05 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ambulance chasers are the #1 reason health care has gone belly up! That and Corrupt Politicans running for Prez!
2007-11-01 08:37:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
He is in the group of people that are at fault for our rising healthcare prices...I mean honestly a guy that sues a dr for tons of $$$ even if the outcome could not have been prevented...this makes the drs insurance rise and rise and rise and that is not good for the rest of us....
2007-11-01 08:17:07 · answer #5 · answered by tll 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Out of 100% of the attornies / lawyers, it is 98.573 % that give ALL of the rest 'a bad reputation' !!!
2007-11-02 04:16:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That wouldn't pass Y!A Community Guidelines or TOS... so I plead the 5th
2007-11-01 11:52:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Couldn't we get an original politician eventually?
All these actors and remakes of a JFK grin
step heavily on my nerves. Cheers.
2007-11-01 07:51:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The fact that he charged $400,000 to give a speech on...wait for it...POVERTY pretty much speaks for itself.
Greedy ambulance chasers that sue the crap out of doctors for millions of dollars for "pain and suffering" and mental anguish" like him are the reason health insurance and healthcare costs are through the roof
'Nuff said
2007-11-01 07:49:03 · answer #9 · answered by flaming_liberal415 4 · 8⤊ 2⤋
I think the type of attorney that argues cases before a judge and jury has to be knowledgeable and quick on his feet in order to be successful. I've always been told you can't argue with success and that's what John Edwards has been.
2007-11-01 07:56:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋