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Lyle Solla-Yates<p>Thinking about legislative changes needed in Virginia to address the housing shortage. There needs to be a reasonable definition of “harm” to determine legal standing for zoning lawsuits. Currently any change is considered harmful and grants legal standing for a lawsuit. My current thinking is that harm must be real and residential use of one’s own legal property and increased property values should not be considered harm. <a href="https://cville.online/tags/virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>virginia</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>housing</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/VALeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VALeg</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>litigation</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/zoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zoning</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/TortReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TortReform</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Business owners react to tort reform, liquor liability law <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1054282/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/1054282/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/alcohol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alcohol</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/bill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bill</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BusinessOwner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessOwner</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>change</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/damage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>damage</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HenryMcMaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HenryMcMaster</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/insurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insurance</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LAW</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/liquor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liquor</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LiquorLiability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiquorLiability</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LiquorLiabilityLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiquorLiabilityLaw</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/reduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reduction</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Restaurant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Restaurant</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SC</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Smith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smith</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SouthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthCarolina</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SouthCarolinaBar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthCarolinaBar</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TortReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TortReform</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/year" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>year</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p>🧵 (2/2) I tried to sue the hospital, but a 2004 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TortReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TortReform</span></a> law (pushed by Gov Rick Perry and approved by TxSC Justice <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GregAbbott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GregAbbott</span></a>) made it impossible.</p><p>When she passed away 9 months later, I ordered an autopsy.</p><p>The autopsy revealed SHE NEVER HAD CANCER! 🤬 </p><p>I tried again to sue, this time for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WrongfulDeath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WrongfulDeath</span></a>, and again, Texas' <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reform</span></a> law made it impossible.</p><p>To this day, no one has ever been held responsible for her death. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RIPMom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RIPMom</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@jeneralist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jeneralist</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@rvaughnmd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rvaughnmd</span></a></span> <br>Ugh! That's even worse: Patients paying with their lives for the screw-ups of the hospital that treated them. 😵 </p><p>This happened to me in 2013/2014. Hospital screwed up and cost my mother her life. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a>' Medical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TortReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TortReform</span></a> law prohibited me from suing. 🤬</p>
Cracked Shamrock<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>QasimRashid</span></a></span> Don't forget Gov. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GregAbbott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GregAbbott</span></a> of Texas, where <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TortReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TortReform</span></a> is always popular, b/c he cashed his settlement check long ago.</p>
MugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️<p>TEN YEARS AGO TODAY, I had to rush my mother to the hospital just hours after her third round of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/chemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chemo</span></a>.</p><p>Three days later, the hospital caused a collapsed lung. A week after that, cardiac arrest left her a vegetable (where she lingered for the next 9 months before she died of a second heart attack.)</p><p>Autopsy proved SHE NEVER HAD <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CANCER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CANCER</span></a>. Couldn't sue b/c <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> protects incompetent dangerous doctors from lawsuits in the name of "<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TortReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TortReform</span></a>". 🤬 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MissYouMom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MissYouMom</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️<p>Remembering my mother this <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MothersDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MothersDay</span></a> who died in 2014 after being MISDIAGNOSED as having malignant <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> in 2013.</p><p>Neglect (ignored by her PCP) resulted in pneumonia that hospitalized her. The hospital screwed up, resulting in a collapsed lung 3 days later. Further neglect resulted in a cardiac arrest 5 days after that. The collapsed lung hindered resuscitation, leaving her a vegetable until she died (cancer free) 8 months later. 🤬 </p><p>Texas Medical <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TortReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TortReform</span></a> law made suing impossible.</p>
Kohl Gill<p>I see this as an effective example for the argument against <a href="https://macaw.social/tags/tortreform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tortreform</span></a>.</p>
Badwolf303<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mtsw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mtsw</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MadMadMadMadRN" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MadMadMadMadRN</span></a></span> Check tort reform that limits pay outs for medical malpractice to $250k in many states unless wrongful death can be proven. Hint: misdiagnosed cancer isn’t considered wrongful death in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/kansas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kansas</span></a> if the cancer would’ve been terminal anyway. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/medicalmalpractice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicalmalpractice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/tortreform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tortreform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/patientsrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patientsrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/glioma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glioma</span></a></p>
Dave Johnson<p>There was a big "personal responsibility" PR effort back when corporations were pushing tort reform."</p><p>The slogan really just meant don't blame each other instead of holding corporations accountable for the harms they do.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/personalresponsibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>personalresponsibility</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/tortreform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tortreform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a></p>
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