Texas Court System Rigged By Insurance Companies
The following is a great Op-Ed regarding a families tragic loss and the failure of justice in Texas.
"Our legal system is rigged. Texas families seeking their day in court are coming face-to-face with the reality that insurance companies dominate our courts and have run roughshod over our constitutional protections.
Few cases are a better illustration of the difficult battle Texans face when they try to hold a wrongdoer accountable than that of Sharon Boyd. Boyd died in July of colon cancer that would have been easily preventable had her doctors ordered a standard colonoscopy. Instead of conducting this routine test, they told her that her symptoms were nothing to worry about and sent her home time and again.
Instead of taking responsibility for their inaction, the doctors hid behind a team of insurance industry lawyers who went to work stalling Boyd's day in court. The lawyers working for her doctors' insurance company said she should have known better than to rely on the advice of her three doctors because she was a nurse with a family history of colon cancer."
Read the full article in the Austin American Statesman.