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McDonough is a victim again, this time of the move to cap jury awards. Colorado is one of the few states that limit jury awards of both economic damages (say, for lost income) and noneconomic ones (for pain and suffering). Judge Warren Martin, now retired, cut McDonough's award to $1.33 million, concluding that although his injuries merited an exception to the $1 million cap, the jury had gone too far. (Colorado's caps limit economic damages to $750,000 and pain-and-suffering awards to $250,000. The former can be increased if a plaintiff shows future economic loss...
Hospitals face many incentives not to report a disciplined doctor--and not to discipline him at all. A hospital may want to limit its liability by not airing the problem. Or it may be afraid of a legal battle with the physician. And doctors are loath to report a colleague's bad behavior. Consumer advocates say that self-policing by doctors and hospitals is not sufficient and that patients need access to state medical board and NPDB records that are denied to them today...
Result: my TiVo can now record 80 hours of TV at the best-quality rate or 145 hours at the lowest quality. That isn't anything like the limit--you can get up to 344 hours on the 320-gigabyte drive--but it's enough to record every single West Wing ever broadcast. And maybe I'll have space left for a nice long Russian movie...
...true priorities of a politician or a political party--as opposed to the boilerplate and blather--stand naked in the public square. George W. Bush had one last week. The White House and the Republican congressional leaders were desperate to squeeze the Bush tax cut into the $350 billion limit set by the Senate. There were plenty of ways to do this; all sorts of accounting flummeries had already been perpetrated, but a final tweak was needed. So the Republicans decided that the working poor, who pay little or no income taxes--families with incomes from...
...Soultz-sous-Forêts, France on something called Hot-Dry Rock. This process aims to simulate natural geothermal wells by strategically fracturing parts of hot subterranean rock formations to form artificial basins where water can be injected. Says Cappetti: "This is the dream. Then there would be no limit." Experiments over the past two years have extended drilling to a depth of 5,000 meters, but a system for converting the manufactured steam into electricity at an economically feasible rate is considered at least a decade away. In the meantime, Tuscany will keep producing the Chianti - and enough local...