Tort Reform Is Really Tort Deform
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner .jpg)
Shriram Harid blogged at the Huffington Post, "President Obama is widely expected to toss Republicans a bone at Thursday's health care summit, by publicly embracing what's known as 'tort reform.'" But as she pointed out, tort reform advocates ignore "how punitive damages [are] essentially the only way that patients have of holding medical professionals and organizations accountable when they kill, maim or injure people through their negligence, ignorance or even malice." Harid remarks, "According to the American Association for Justice . . . legislators ought to be focused primarily on reducing the frequency of malpractice, rather than malpractice litigation, since a mere 2 to 3 percent of all instances of malpractice lead to claims." And she quotes the President of the Association, Anthony Tarricone, who stated, "The idea of bargaining away the life of injured patients is a very, very bad idea... Opponents of health care have seized on tort reform as a panacea. ... They're bankrupt of any real reforms. The only real solution is eliminating malpractice itself."
Nearly 100,000 people die every year in America due to preventable medical errors--that's like two 747 airplanes fully loaded crashing to the ground every single day. The last thing the government should ever seek to do is limit these innocent victims' ability to seek justice. What the medical and business industries should be focusing on is improving medical care to avoid the medical errors that are seriously injuring and killing Americans.
I represent people who have been devastatingly injured due to preventable medical errors, as well as families of those who have been killed due to medical negligence. If you have any questions about our civil justice system and its impact on overall healthcare costs, please feel free to give me a call.
About the author:
Mr. Zambri is a Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. and has been rated by Washingtonian magazine as a "Big Gun" and among the "top 1%" of all lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also describes him as "one of Washington's best--most honest and effective lawyers" who specializes in personal injury matters, including product liability, medical malpractice, and automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri has also been repeatedly named a "Super Lawyer" by Law and Politics magazine--a national publication that honors the top lawyers in America.
Mr. Zambri was sought after to publish a chapter regarding product liability litigation in Aspatore Books - a company that is touted as "the largest and most exclusive publisher of C-1 Level executives (CEO, CFO, CTO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies and law firms." To read Mr. Zambri's publication, entitled "Constantly Preparing To Win", please click here. If you have any questions about your legal rights, please email Mr. Zambri at szambri@reganfirm.com or call him at 202-822-1899.