Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases
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    5/8/2008
    James R. Carroll, Jr., Esquire
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    DEBUNKING “TORT REFORM”

    “Advocating solely for tort reform in the legislative arena does not get to the root of the medical liability crisis, according to Richard Boothman, JD, chief risk officer for the University of Michigan Health Systems:

    "Study after study suggests that patients sue primarily because they feel they haven't gotten answers,” Mr Boothman said, “They feel that no one is accountable when an error has caused injury. They also feel a huge sense of responsibility to protect others, to make sure what happened to them won't happen to other patients. Blaming lawyers and imposing caps and other hurdles to litigation simply doesn't get to what is actually driving patients to lawyers."

    Read the entire article here.
    Labels: tort reform


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