Posted On: May 29, 2007
Malpractice myth
This comes as no surprise to Chicago medical malpractice lawyers:
“Juries in medical malpractice cases tend to sympathize with the doctors being sued rather than the patients who are suing them, a law professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia has concluded after analyzing three decades of research on the subject. There is no empirical evidence to support the much-publicized notion that the tort system amounts to a lottery for injured plaintiffs, as President Bush and others have long maintained, writes Philip G. Peters Jr. in the May edition of the Michigan Law Review. If anything, the system appears to be biased against them.”
Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post 5/08/07
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