"Hot Coffee" Exposes How Hard Caps on Malpractice Awards Shift Burden to Taxpayers

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"Hot Coffee" Film Explores How Corporations Spend Millions to Alter the U.S. Civil Justice System


In our final segment featuring the explosive new documentary "Hot Coffee," we speak with a family featured in the film. Lisa and Mike Gourley are the parents of twin sons Colin and Connor. Colin was born with cerebral palsy because of medical malpractice during childbirth. A Nebraska jury awarded Colin $5.6 million to cover his medical expenses. But a state-mandated cap reduced his award by 80 percent, to $1.2 million. Democracy Now! speaks with the family about how taxpayers are now responsible for paying for Colin's expensive healthcare costs and how mandated caps in malpractice lawsuits relieve the wrongdoer of responsibility for the damage they cause.

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1. I hope the insurance companies and doctors who are for tort reform do tell

How much money in premiums everyone has saved.

Another corporatist crockful.