Med Mal Reform in Georgia - a complete failure -
In a recent issue of the Atlanta Business Chronicle dated January 13, 2006
Dr. Kelly B. Thrasher, a Georgia physician, demonstrated that some doctors
actually "get it". Dr. Thrasher pointed out the obvious failure of medical
malpractice "tort reform" in Georgia to do anything but fatten insurance
company profits (by again reducing their claims paid out). Duped into
thinking that eliminating the ability of severely injured patients to
recover full compensation for their injuries at the hands of negligent and
careless medical providers would help to decrease medical malpractice
insurance rates, both the Georgia medical community and the state
legislature supported and then passed Senate Bill 3, a medical malpractice
"tort reform" bill in February 2005. Since the implementation of that
destructive "reform", many injured people have lost their ability to rebuild
their lives, but not one insurer in Georgia has reduced malpractice
premiums. As Dr. Thrasher states: "wild, unchecked increases in the cost
of malpractice insurance [present]... a crisis of accountability in the
Goliath insurance industry.... [We need] real reform targeting insurance
industry greed that is clearly at the root of recent rate hikes.
From: the website of Atlanta Bizjournals
Being a passenger in a car driven by a bad driver can be fatal. Honolulu's 22nd fatal car accident of 2025 involved a passenger who was ejected after the driver of their car lost control and crashed into a fence first and then into a guardrail on Kam Highway in the Mililani area. The passenger was ejected and killed. See, Fatal Car Accident in Mililani, Hawaii on April 12, 2025
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