Limiting medical and health care expense recovery in a civil action to the amount actually paid or incurred, by or on behalf of the claimant, was one of the significant civil justice reforms passed in 2003. Prior to 2003, plaintiffs were allowed to recover the full billed amount, including the “phantom” charges that were never paid because the bills were reduced—a common practice in medical care.
A Culture of Death, a Culture of Life
A culture of death is stalking our nation. Yet as some states work to expand assisted suicide, make abortion limitless (and free), and to ensure that children are able to be sterilized with surgeries and hormone treatments, Texas is creating—and celebrating—a culture of life. In some states, activists are working to expand physician-assisted suicide laws...