Bad-actor ‘anecdotes’ finally, after decades, granted new credibility
Year: 2015
Supreme Court: Injured Nevada workers get
merely ‘a hollow and illusory form of relief’
State lawmakers gave surprising legal shield
to insurers, administrators who act in bad faith
Lawmakers saw problems with doctors, high court justices
Politicized state system kept dispensing generous benefits
while lawmakers, governor, ducked need to face the deficit
Regime’s politicized judiciary rewrote liability law to help
feudal autocracy stave off the rise of a liberal middle class
Fearing higher costs and a litigation explosion, industry proposed cost-sharing
for accident insurance — but still got higher costs and a litigation explosion
German statist ideologies, Bismarck’s personal hostility
to laissez-faire liberal ideas of free development, played big role
State’s so-called ‘grand bargain’ frustrates employees, employers, taxpayers
Truncated health-provider networks increase insurers’ control over doctors