WalterInDenver on John Edwards
WalterInDenver linked to me because of my Drug Clock link. He’s got an interesting post about How John Edwards Got Rich which links back to Dr. Chris Rangel who wrote the original post about how children born with cerebral palsy (CP) have become a cash cow for lawyers like Edwards. The problem is that CP, according to scientists, is often the result of prenatal factors, not medical malpractice. This is just one paragraph:
Who cares about proof, or evidence, or justice when you can leverage the tragic story of a 5-year-old girl to siphon millions out of the insurance companies! These often successful tactics benefit trial lawyers in many other ways. For example, according to Dr. John Freeman, a professor of neurology and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md (cited in the same article) a staggering 90% of malpractice cases for CP are settled out of court. The trial lawyers ability to emotionally manipulate a jury into awarding obscene amounts to the plaintiff despite all the evidence to the contrary has scared most obstetricians (or their insurance companies) into settling out of court. I don’t blame them.
Cerebral Palsy cases have become a cash cow for successful trial lawyers like Edwards.
When you read the descriptions of how John Edwards won his cases in court, you will notice that it sounds a lot like how he addresses audiences–the jury he needs to sway–in his campaign for president.
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