Injustice in Texas
Personal Injury Attorney – Dallas, Texas
Hello and welcome to my blog.My hope is to use this blog as a message board to the public concerning recent changes in Personal Injury law in Texas. Recent changes in the law have created a devastating state of injustice in Texas. These changes include removing the open courts provision from the Texas Constitution, placing tremendous and unreasonable limitations on recovery for those who have been severely injured, and setting a statutory standard for our emergency room doctors which makes negligent care the accepted standard of care in our emergency rooms. Under the new laws established for Medical Malpractice in Texas, an emergency room doctor is not liable for such things as removing the wrong leg on a patient during an emergency amputation!
Our Governor and Legislature have all but abandoned the common man. Big businesses and insurance companies are being insulated and protected by our government, while the common man’s rights and protections are whittled away. Perhaps the most disturbing part in all of this is the fact that big businesses and insurance companies (along with the politicians who reside in their back pockets) have poured money into misleading advertising which has been utilized to trick the citizens of Texas into voting for legislation that removes their legal rights.Perhaps you recall receiving telephone calls from your doctor’s office during the fall of 2003 . . . Medical nurses and administrators were asking you to vote “yes” for Proposition 12. Posters were hanging in most doctor’s offices, crying out to “Save Your Doctor.” Proposition 12 was successful and passed in September 2003. It was advertised to the citizens of Texas as a measure which was needed to limit excessive awards in Medical Malpractice cases . . . In reality it granted the legislature the ability to remove the Texas citizens’ constitutional right to access to the Courts as was guaranteed by the Texas Bill of Rights. Our Bill of Rights has long included an open courts provision which reads as follows: “All courts shall be open, and every person for an injury done him, in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law.” As a result of trickery and a very misleading advertising campaign pushed by politicians and insurance companies, the Texas citizens unwittingly voted to amend the Texas Constitution and thereby restrict their own right to access to the Courts from the Texas Constitution.
In the coming days and months, I plan to provide more information to the public in effort to expose the truth to those people with an interest in reading it. I would also be happy to answer specific questions of interest in personal injury law for those who would like to submit them.
