Well maybe some good news here from Washington.  That feels like an odd thing to type.  Is it actually possible to have good news come out of Washington?  But I digress.

The Washington Post has a report out on the status of George Bush’s efforts to attack medical malpractice lawsuit in this country.  It does not appear to be going well for him and that is good news for the civil justice system.  The President was trying to ram this bill through while riding on his "mandate".  As the article points out he did get a Class Action bill passed, but that was the "low hanging fruit".

The malpractice bill he wanted was bad.  It attacked the people who actually had claims by limiting the amount of recovery to an ARBITRARY amount.  I’ve said it before if you want to limit frivolous lawsuits, then set up some sort of easy screening system.  New Hampshire has proposed this system and it has passed part of its House.  See my post on my New Hampshire law blog.