Reply #16: Let me guess. Your hubby is corporate defense lawyer or corporate inhouse counsel.

[No Elephants]

Sorry to see you and your hubby falling for Republican lawyer bashing.

Besides, federal court rules and court rules or laws in every state permit judges to sanction both the plaintiff and his or her attorney for bringing a frivolous lawsuit. If the suit is all that frivolous, let the lawyer for the doctor's insurance company move to sanction the plaintiff. Yet, so few do. Guess it's a lot easier to bloviate about lawsuits' being frivolous than to put their own legal fees where their mouth is.

On edit: Or, in fairness, maybe your husband was talking about tort cases other than medical malpractice cases, as another poster on this thread intimated. For example, suing MacDonald's because fast food is fattening or because MacDonald's serves hot coffee at hot temperatures is very, very different from a medical malpractice case.