Prozerran
08-26-2007, 11:46 PM
Hopefully, I'm not boring you or creating a too much of a fuss with the topics I've been posting recently. I have another topic of interest that I thought might deserve some discussion. I don't have links or quotes, no sources to review this time. Simply put, I want to know your position on the current basis for putting an end to law suits considered "frivolous" or a waste of time and money.
This is mostly prevalent in the medical industry, more specifically with medical malpractice and insurance related civil litigation. Essentially, the position against them is that lawyers are greedy, settlement-mongering animals looking for ways to manipulate the law to make money.
But if there exists a reason for citizens to file a grievance against the medical industry or insurance companies, should it not be addressed? Is it that attorneys are looking for trouble, or is it that so many law suits would not need to be filed if people in these industries were following the rules? I stand by the law. If such a case can be made against these industries, then it SHOULD be made. I see the push to put an end to these lawsuits as a way to give these companies a way out of meeting their responsibilities to citizens. When should we stop holding these groups accountable?
The classic argument is a slippery slope. If we keep suing insurance companies and doctors, it will be too expensive for them to continue providing services. In one case, an insurance company was sued for wrongful death because they did not provide the insured the treatment that could save his life. Why? Because the treatment was at a hospital that was not covered in the policy. Moreover, even if the hospital was covered in the policy, the procedure was not covered. In the end, the insurance company in question was offering coverage to the poor, taking their money, then not covering their medical expenses when the procedure passed a certain amount of cost. The cost of litigation was less than that of the cost of covering the client. It was obviously a matter to be heard in a court of law.
And the pitiful insurance companies and medical industry as a whole is crying foul because more and more people are holding them accountable. Let me get my little fiddle... poor Corporate America... I don't feel the least bit sorry for any of them.
This is mostly prevalent in the medical industry, more specifically with medical malpractice and insurance related civil litigation. Essentially, the position against them is that lawyers are greedy, settlement-mongering animals looking for ways to manipulate the law to make money.
But if there exists a reason for citizens to file a grievance against the medical industry or insurance companies, should it not be addressed? Is it that attorneys are looking for trouble, or is it that so many law suits would not need to be filed if people in these industries were following the rules? I stand by the law. If such a case can be made against these industries, then it SHOULD be made. I see the push to put an end to these lawsuits as a way to give these companies a way out of meeting their responsibilities to citizens. When should we stop holding these groups accountable?
The classic argument is a slippery slope. If we keep suing insurance companies and doctors, it will be too expensive for them to continue providing services. In one case, an insurance company was sued for wrongful death because they did not provide the insured the treatment that could save his life. Why? Because the treatment was at a hospital that was not covered in the policy. Moreover, even if the hospital was covered in the policy, the procedure was not covered. In the end, the insurance company in question was offering coverage to the poor, taking their money, then not covering their medical expenses when the procedure passed a certain amount of cost. The cost of litigation was less than that of the cost of covering the client. It was obviously a matter to be heard in a court of law.
And the pitiful insurance companies and medical industry as a whole is crying foul because more and more people are holding them accountable. Let me get my little fiddle... poor Corporate America... I don't feel the least bit sorry for any of them.