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Saturday, July 12, 2003The current arrangement delivers justice at random, in widely varying amounts or not at all, depending on whether you’re feeling litigious, how good your lawyer is, or what a judge or a juror had for breakfast that day. It is less a matter of injustice than of more justice than we can afford, scattered somewhat at random. What is wrong with a $250,000 cap on payments for pain and suffering? Why should one person get $5 million, another $500,000, and yet another nothing at all for essentially the same injury? The fact that $250,000 can’t begin to compensate for the pain and suffering a patient may have endured can demonstrate that $250,000 isn’t enough money, or it can demonstrate that money’s ability to compensate for non-monetary losses is inherently limited. posted by Sydney on 7/12/2003 01:12:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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