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A failed solution for medical negligence. .

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-FEB-03 		Format: Online - approximately 844 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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In 1994, Frank Cornelius wrote in the New York Times that restricting Americans' legal rights was not a solution to medical negligence. There's no doubt he was an expert on the issue, having been both an insurance industry lobbyist and a victim of devastating medical malpractice.

As a lobbyist, Cornelius helped convince the Indiana legislature to pass a $500,000 cap on malpractice damages in 1975. "I argued successfully that such limits would reduce health care costs and encourage physicians to stay in Indiana," he explained nearly 20 years later in his editorial, "Crushed by My Own Reform."

By 1990, Cornelius was in a wheelchair, in constant pain, and using a respirator to breathe after a series of medical mistakes that began with routine knee surgery. His...

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