It is time to put limits on this kind of lawsuit.
The legal system, which I see as an overhead function, has instead become an application designed to enrich those who operate it.
80 year old peole with terminal diseases are enriching their heirs because a mistake, only seen retroactively, may have been committed in their health care.
Even though they were dying anyway.
That is an extreme example, but it is one that happens.
Lawyers make mistakes but are very seldom bothered.
Yet a doctor lives under a microscope.
The real cost will be when physicians stop offering their services to the public.
I have a friend who is a physician, and I know that he and others are considering creating strictly private practices, where only groups who pay them directly -no insurance, no medicare, etc.
They will only offer service to people who pay a quarterly retainer directly to them.
Ed