#tortreform — Public Fediverse posts

Pluralistic: California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners (28 Feb 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/28/golden-mean/

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. #virginia #housing #VALeg #litigation #zoning #TortReform

https://www.alxnow.com/2024/05/08/alexandria-anti-zoning-for-housing-case-gets-another-day-in-court/ #virginia continues to struggle with how to identify any harm from reversing #segregation and permitting #housing where needed. Lawsuits are standard and costly and lengthy but the value of those lawsuits to the public is unclear. Legislative guidance clarifying #standing would be helpful here #tortreform #zoning

🧵 (2/2) I tried to sue the hospital, but a 2004 #Texas #TortReform law (pushed by Gov Rick Perry and approved by TxSC Justice #GregAbbott) made it impossible.

When she passed away 9 months later, I ordered an autopsy.

The autopsy revealed SHE NEVER HAD CANCER! 🤬

I tried again to sue, this time for #WrongfulDeath, and again, Texas' #Medical #Tort #Reform law made it impossible.

To this day, no one has ever been held responsible for her death. #RIPMom

@jeneralist @rvaughnmd
Ugh! That's even worse: Patients paying with their lives for the screw-ups of the hospital that treated them. 😵

This happened to me in 2013/2014. Hospital screwed up and cost my mother her life. #Texas' Medical #TortReform law prohibited me from suing. 🤬

@QasimRashid Don't forget Gov. #GregAbbott of Texas, where #TortReform is always popular, b/c he cashed his settlement check long ago.

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY, I had to rush my mother to the hospital just hours after her third round of #chemo.

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.)

Autopsy proved SHE NEVER HAD #CANCER. Couldn't sue b/c #Texas protects incompetent dangerous doctors from lawsuits in the name of "#TortReform". 🤬 #MissYouMom

I see this as an effective example for the argument against #tortreform.

@mtsw @MadMadMadMadRN 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 #kansas if the cancer would’ve been terminal anyway.

#medicalmalpractice #tortreform #patientsrights #cancer #glioma