re: Lawyer question.

Yeah, putting limits on auto accidents isn't going to work. Everyone loves playing tough on this subject until junior gets hit on the basin and then they ask the OT about which lawyer to hire.

Louisiana already has a cap on medical malpractice damages and it is incredibly hard to win those cases or get a significant settlement.

Not to interject rationality, but caps won't do anything for the OP. The article also didn't seem to say anything about rates for consumers (only that payouts went down and reduced the number of suits). Fewer suits/ less payouts is good, but that really only benefits the insurance companies. I believe there is research suggesting the current way most states do tort reform doesn't have much benefit for consumers.

If you want my two cents, prohibit plaintiff attorneys from paying chiros and hack docs to treat the "victims" and that will reduce a LOT of frivolous claims. Or just take the licenses of the chiros and hack docs rubber-stamping road wreck pts and pumping them up with opioids or cutting on them with little justification or conservative care

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No more $10mil suits for ampertatin' the wrong foot.

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Those don’t exist. At least not in LA. Med mal is capped at $500K IIRC. Which sucks b/c if some asshat MD chops off the wrong foot (and you later have the correct foot lopped off), you’re pretty much screwed for life. How in the hell does $500k sufficiently compensate a 20 year old who can never walk again?