The special interest groups are at it again at the Utah Legislature.  The health insurance industry, medical malpractice insurance companies, health care facilities and doctors are again putting the patient second to their own interests.  

The special interests are trying to:

1. Limit the time which a person injured by medical negligence can sue for compensation;
2. Reduce the amount of money the injured can receive when they are hurt by negligent health care;
3. Make others than themselves pay for the harm they have caused;
4. Decrease the fees paid to attorneys who represent injured people making it less likely that smaller cases will recover compensation for their injuries;
5. Changing the rules of the game to make it tougher for injured plaintiffs to have their day in court; and
6. Cut off avenues of recovery where one health care provider looks like he or she or they are working for someone else again leaving the injured plaintiff out in the cold.

I represent people injured as a result of medical negligence.  I have seen the injuries, the heartache and the pain.  These are real people I am talking about.  If not people you now know they will be people will know.  They are your friends, family or loved ones who may be injured, oftentimes in very personal and lifelong ways, by the doctor who refuses to listen or the facility that treats patients more like a processing plant than a  caring institution.

Personally I think these measures that the special interest groups are trying to pass into law are reprehensible.  Professionally, as an attorney who represents people injured by medical negligence, I think this legislation and other legislation like it is a big money grab by the special interest groups. 

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