What is going on in Wisconsin?
This week the Wisconsin legislature again passed caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases, despite the fact that its state Supreme Court ruled similar caps unconstitutional earlier this year. See article. The legislature also passed and sent to Governor Doyle a bill setting new, stricter guidelines on when someone who is injured using a product can sue its manufacturers, distributors or retailers. The Senate passed and sent to the Assembly a bill that would make it much tougher to sue paint manufacturers who used lead decades ago, even though, according to this article, opponents of the bill say lead still sickens and kills more than 3,000 children in Wisconsin each year. Let's just hope the heart and mind of Governor Doyle is different from that of the state's legislators.