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Decapitated Baby Case Vs Texas Tort Reform, Texans Will Lose

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Recently, a lawsuit has been filed as a result of a doctor severing the head form the cervical spine at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Arteisha Betts went to Mercy Hospital for a preterm delivery there in March of 2011.  Weeks earlier she had been informed by her obstetrician that a c-section would be required due to the baby's unusually large abdomen. According to the lawsuit, the doctors insisted on a vaginal child birth and would not let read more
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The Lack of Accountability of Texas Doctors

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Health care liability reform under the reign of Rick Perry has had a chilling effect on doctor accountability in Texas.  To those in the know, the laws were not created with  the goal of providing patients better medical care.  They were created to discourage lawyers from ever helping anyone who suffers injury at the hands of a negligent physician, nurse, therapist, osteopath or other medical provider. Caps on medical damages limiting non-economic read more
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The Truth About Personal Injury Claims Part I — The Tort Reform Lie

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Tort Reform was sold to the People of Texas as the solution to a 'frivolous lawsuit crisis' in our courts. Something had to be done because the courts were full of McDonald's coffee-like lawsuits threatening to destroy the very fabric of our society! The media jumped on the band wagon and publicized any story of a possible frivolous lawsuit they could find, investigative tv shows ran story after story (often funded by insurance companies) about read more
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