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To read our series of articles revealing the truth about “tort reform,” visit: How Your Elected Legislators Have Chiseled Away Your Legal Rights How the Health Care and Insurance Industries Work to Limit Your Legal Rights Tort Reform: Fighting Back for Consumers. In the nearly two years since the Illinois state Supreme Court struck down caps on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice suits, there’s been no explosion in medical malpractice suits, payouts nor any evidence that they have been a …

A Minnesota court recently stepped in to prevent a woman who suffered lead poisoning as a child from selling $299,000 of her personal injury award for just $19,000. The $299,000 of future payments were a part of a larger "structured settlement" she received for her injuries when she was a minor. In two prior deals she’d already swapped $352,000 worth of future payments for $77,000 upfront.   Structured settlements offered in many personal injury cases Structures intended to secure future replacement income for injury …

Large Patients Mean Big Problems for Hospitals The family of a 61-year-old man who died after rolling off a hospital table has been awarded $225,000 by the Ramsey County District Court after a jury found the hospital negligent. The incident occurred on March 8, 2010 when St. Paul, Minn. resident Max DeVries was scheduled for a routine surgical procedure at HealthEast St. Joseph’s Hospital. According to the complaint, DeVries was sedated and not properly restrained on the surgical table, resulting …

An aged dentist remains defiant after his malpractice insurer paid out $1 million to the parents of the young girl who died after anesthesia in his office. He claims he’s settled nothing, and that he’s demanded an investigation. Yet he agreed to stop giving patients an anesthetic cocktail – including the same drug that killed Michael Jackson – during dental procedures, and then recently retired at the urging of the Ohio dental board.   An 81-year-old dentist has retired under …

A 15-year-old Michigan girl who sustained a serious brain injury at birth has won a $144 million medical malpractice jury verdict. The award appears to be a record for such cases. The jury assessed the damages against the hospital where the girl was born.   Huge verdict in Michigan birth injury case Big verdicts make headlines, but they’re the exception Eighty percent of medical malpractice claims aren’t compensated   "Not a Lottery" In the past few weeks we’ve reported on …