Apparently, I first started blogging on Halloween of 2003. My goodness, that seems like forever ago. I was working as a paralegal for a small personal injury law firm in Texas and I decided that someone needed to start telling the truth about the tort “reform” movement. It looks like my very first blog post was about medical malpractice. What a blast from the past:
58,000 people died in the ten years we were in Vietnam. 100,000 people die every year due to medical malpractice.
In West Virginia, just forty doctors cause 25% of the state’s malpractice claims.
Florida, Michigan, Texas, and West Virginia – all states with damage caps – have the highest malpractice insurance premium rates.
2/3rds of Medical Malpractice cases are dropped or dismissed with the plaintiff taking nothing.
Just .9 percent of malpractice plaintiffs are awarded money by a jury.
For the past ten years, the number of malpractice suits has remained steady.
Since 2000, the average malpractice jury award has gone down by 50%.
The next seven years will see more frequent blog posting, and a killer site redesign. Seriously, I’m going to migrate to WordPress in a week or so, and my new site theme is just killer. I’m also feeling reinvigorated about blogging now that so many of the big projects I’ve had are done. (i.e. the bar exam, moving across the country, etc.)
If you’ve got comments, suggestions, or questions, drop me a line.
Congratulations on your longevity! With regard to ” I decided that someone needed to start telling the truth about the tort “reform” movement.”, I respectfully disagree that your view represents ‘the whole truth’. As you know from your profession, when only one side argues his case, it seems persuasive, until the other side responds.
Congratulations on the perserverance.
I might start my own blog – I’ve decided that someone needs to start telling the truth about the anti-tort “reform” movement. Groups such as Drum Institute and Center For Democracy & Justice are nothing more that trial lawyer fronts with disguised names