The ITLA Website had an interesting link to a September 5, 2006 opinion piece written by Mary Shaw in OpEdNews.com. Mary pointed out the hypocrisy of Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, presently involved in a tight re-election campaign against Democratic challenger Bob Casey. Seems that Santorum is running ads blasting Casey for his failure to support tort reform. Shaw's article described how the Santorum pieces talk about all the poor, downtrodden doctors who are fleeing the state because of the big awards entered in med mal cases. In addition Santorum has been a vocal proponent of caps on non-economic damages[pain and suffering]in personal injury cases, at one point proposing a cap of $250,000.
And now, to borrow a phrase from Paul Harvey, for the rest of the story...What Rick doesn't mention is that he isn't always for caps. For example, when his wife sued her chiropractor in 1999 for $500,000. Rick didn't support caps in that instance, no sir. Seems caps on damages are only appropriate when the Senator is talking about people to whom he is not married. Then, by all means, caps are a good thing. The United State Senate will be a better place without this guy. November can't get here quick enough.
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