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Who Is Behind Tort Reform? Part 3 on Tort Reform

The civil justice system was designed to provide protection to individuals for violations of civil law. A lot of money is spent each year by organizations that promote a view of the civil justice system that is not accurate (tort reform).  The money is spent to convince the public that the court system is filled with frivolous lawsuits and that jury's awards are out of line with the damages presented in the case. The full facts of the case are never told.

The positive sides of the civil justice system are usually ignored. The stories about the manufacture of a defective product that caused injuries being taken off the market, or the fact that cars are safer today, drugs are safer today, traffic lights, railroad crossings, are all safer than they were 100 lawsuits ago. Trial lawyers are responsible for this increase in consumer safety. These positive stories are not often told because it is not the injured individual who has the resources to publish their side of the story. It is the large well funded corporations that are promoting a view of the civil justice system that is distorted and not helpful to the individual and their rights.

Each year 80,000-90,000 people die in the United States because of medical malpractice. This figure is published by the American Medical Association. Yet, instead of addressing the thousands killed each year the medical community wants to limit your rights to full justice.  As a medical malpractice lawyer in Ocala, I have seen way too often the unfairness of this and the heartbreaking consequences.