"A new group called the Coalition for Health
Care Access and Liability Reform wants to take
away our constitutional rights and ignore the
medical injuries and deaths occurring in Maine.
This is the latest tort 'reform' effort
targeting the wrong people, victims of medical
malpractice, instead of those responsible for
what health providers pay for malpractice
insurance, insurance companies. Maine People's
Alliance's 23,000 members call on the Maine
Legislature to reject this latest attack on the
civil justice system and focus on solutions that
will truly address the problem of medical
injuries and deaths....Maine People's Alliance
opposes this assault on our constitutional
rights and sense of justice. Tort 'reform' is
code language for taking away people's legal
rights. The coalition pushing tort reform wants
to cap, or limit, the amount of noneconomic
damages injured people can receive regardless
of the amount of harm inflicted upon them."
John Dieffenbacher-Krall, Co-director Of Maine
People's Alliance, Bangor (Maine) Daily News,
03/23/2005. For complete story, see http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=110866
