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Bill: Law Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Union Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2618
Description[?]:
| There can be a cap on lawsuit awards, but no cap on corporate profit? This is an abomination, which we propose to rectify. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Malpractice suits.
Old value:: Malpractice suits may not be brought.
Current: Only a medical regulatory body can prosecute a doctor for malpractice.
Proposed: Malpractice suits may be brought against doctors.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Tort reform on non-civil lawsuits.
Old value:: There is a cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Current: There is no cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Proposed: There is no cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:39:11, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Mordusian Austrian Union | To | Debating the Law Reform Act |
| Message | Support. If a doctor messes up in a gross deriliction of duty, the doctor should be punished. The DOCTOR, though, not the medical hospital. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 144 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 51 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life fictional references (eg. Gandalf, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker). |
| Random quote: “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.” --H.L. Mencken |