'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide'

An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times (free reg's yada, yada) has this article about Texas doctors running an online blacklist of patients who have sued. The searchable database is at doctorsknow.us. Nice to know that you can get blacklisted for suing the doctor that caused massive brain damage to your kid (and winning)." To add a plaintiff to the database, membership was not always required.

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tort reform

[ender's_shadow]

Imagine what happens when insurance co.s start to use this list. Republicans will probably sanction this anti-consumer behavior, given their track history w/ respect to tort reform.

Re:McDonald's Coffee

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you in favor of automobile makers deciding that it would be cheaper to make settlements/pay death/injury lawsuits, than to repair the defective part known to injure people? Because that's essentially what McDonald's was doing.

It doesn't matter if she spilled the coffee. It's reasonable to expect that spilling coffee won't result in first degree burns to your groin, requiring tens of thousands of dollars of surgery.

The size of the settlement (later reduced in appeal) was the amount that McDonald's saved by continuing with a policy that seriously injured people. This was to make sure the corporation doesn't financially benefit from a policy of injuring customers for financial gain. It's the method courts have used to attempt American car companies from doing the same thing.

Re:Then don't file frivolous malpractice lawsuits.

[fenix down]

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Re:Rigged market

[stimpy1306]

ok and on what planet is this ?

The AMA controls the supply of doctors ? Bullshit

Like the NRA controls the number of gun users?

The AMA is lobby pure and simple ..now they also support research which is the past has proven them wrong and has reached conclusions they don't like ...yet they still support research.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/12014.h tm l

shows that the AMA has 250 K members of which not all are doctors...

Conversely there are 700K MDs and DOs in the US

Do you see the math error here ?

I don't know where you got your info but MANY doctors and MOST medical professionals are NOT members of the AMA...no doctors i know are ..its optional ....and i can't find any penalty for not joining....and i won't because they support political views i don't

but controlling the number of doctors? where the hell did this BS come from ?

please try and drool next to the desk not on the keyboard...

sheesh

Andrew

The real question

[danila]

I just stopped reading this thread because it became pointless. Some argue that bogus lawsuits are problem, some argue they aren't. What I would like to see is some statistics about the scope of the bogus lawsuits. How many lawsuits for malpractice are filed every year, how many are won, how many are settled, what is the average settlement and award, etc. And on top of that, how many of these are supposedly bogus. Without that I can't answer the simple question of whether personal injury attorneys are scumbags or useful members of society...

Any numbers, anyone? Please...