Faulty Facts Blazed Trail for Tort Reform

Advocates for your right to hold medical practitioners accountable for mistakes never had a chance. A KDFW news investigation learned that much of the argument for tort reform leading up to the passing of Proposition 12 in November 2003 was based on exaggerated facts and blatantly incorrect information.

After the law was passed, a group of Texas law professors began studying medical malpractice insurance trends for a period of 17 years and found that there had been no increase in claims. Fox also reports that Texans’ For Lawsuit Reform statistics used during the campaign claimed that lawsuits were raising doctors’ medical malpractice insurance rates, but in reality rates were increasing because insurance companies had been undercharging doctors.

“Did reform really work?” asks the investigation. “Most Texans probably couldn’t
say.”

Two things are certain: Texans lost their right to fair compensation after medical mistakes and insurance companies kept a whole lot more money in their pockets.

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