Phillips v. Hanna’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Krupinski v. Vocational Technical School Eastern Northampton County · Babcock v. Northwest Memorial Hospital · Rivera v. Brazos Lodge Corp. · Corrado v. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital · 435 Pa. Super. 603 - Guadagnino v. Montie
Most-quoted passages
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“"I want to talk about a national issue that is of concern to millions here in Pennsylvania. Too many doctors, too many really fine healers are being forced out of practice because of the high cost of junk lawsuits. You cannot be pro-doctor and pro-patient and pro-plaintiff attorney at the same time. "You have to choose. My opponent made his choice and he put him on the ticket. I made my choice, I'm standing with the does [sic] and patients. We want medical liability reform now. "Let me give you a quick story about what I’m talking about. I’m telling you this is a national problem that requires a national solution. Today, I met with Dr. Neal Davis from Carbondale. He told all his patients to come. And Mary Coar, one of his patients ... I want you to hear this story because it's happening all across America. "Last November, after 15 years of practice in Pennsylvania, Dr. Davis learned that his insurance company would no longer insure doctors in this state because of the junk lawsuits, because the law system here in terms of medicine is like a lottery. That’s what it’s like. And it's unfair to patients. It’s unfair to doctors. It’s unfair to taxpayers. He found a new policy, but it said you had to give up delivering babies as a part of the coverage. That's what's happening to OB-GYN’s all across the country. "That forced Mary, four months pregnant, to start driving 50 miles each way to see different doctors, a different doctor. When Mary’s daughter arrived this summer, she was d”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I want to talk about a national issue that is of concern to millions here in Pennsylvania. Too many doctors, too many really fine healers are being forced out of practice because of the high cost of junk lawsuits. You cannot be pro-doctor and pro-patient and pro-plaintiff attorney at the same time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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