the rush to cap awards ignores the problem of medical negligence in America, which accounts for 44,000 to 98,000 preventable deaths a year, according to a 1999 study by the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences. "The so-called crisis with medical malpractice is another symptom of a health care system that is broken and out of control," said Dena Mottola, acting director of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group. "There's a lot of misinformation out there, but whether or not you agree with the numbers, until we fix the underlying problems, nothing will change."
The misiformation is in the propaganda that large verdicts are routine and commonplace. They're not.
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