BEWARE REAL COSTS OF MANAGED CARE
The saying "Politics makes strange bedfellows" certainly has caught the medical profession on the wrong side of the bed in the managed-care nightmare. The medical profession, which just a short...
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DOLLAR SIGNS AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS
Amid all the rhetoric surrounding the terrible tragedy that occurred in Fox River Grove, several important points merit discussion. The courts ultimately will determine the liability in the accident that...
VICTIMS LOSE IN CAPPING DAMAGES
The lack of concern over the safety of small commuter aircraft is finally being recognized by aviation officials and the press ("Missing clues of a problem plane," Editorial, March 6)....
JUSTICE SYSTEM CORRECTS ITS OUTRAGES
As a personal injury lawyer, I am boiling at the "Big Mac" verdict and, as expected, the civil justice system corrected such an aberration. By now, nearly everyone has heard...
MUST HOLD PURVEYORS OF GUNS LIABLE
Buried deep in the Select Revenue Congressional Subcommittee in our nation's capital languishes H.R. 737. It is a bill quietly introduced last year by U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds (D-Ill.) that...
POSITIVE BENEFIT IN PUNITIVE DAMAGES
The Tribune recently ran a cartoon (March 28) by Dick Locher depicting lawyers as ambulance chasers in the medical malpractice arena. Contrary to claims of the medical community, lawyers and...
LEGAL REFORMERS HAVEN`T MADE CASE
The debate over tort reform waxes even hotter with Vice President Dan Quayle`s recent appearance in Springfield before the Illinois Manufacturers Association. In this election year, tort reformers continue to...