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From email received from the PickUpPatriots:
Burning Questions about HB527 and Speaker Bill O'Brien
The New Hampshire Democratic Party is accusing House Speaker William O'Brien of a publicity stunt after he filed a $1.2 million lawsuit against the party. http://www.concordmonitor.com/...
The Concord Monitor reported that "In O'Brien's lawsuit, filed in Hillsborough County Superior Court, his attorney cites a state statute that says a person "injured by another's violation" of the law can sue for "the amount of actual damages or $1,000, whichever is greater."
We have several burning questions:
Is it possible that Speaker O'Brien wants to waste court resources?
Not only was the Speaker not harmed, he won his seat, and became Speaker to boot! Now he claims that voters were harmed. How?
And if so, why don't they sue on their own behalf unless the Speaker has decreed that he will use the Royal "we" and proclaim his paternalistic dominion over all things and people in Hillsborough's 4th District?
Further, we were wondering if the Speaker is aware of HB527, especially in light of this "frivoulous-like" lawsuit?
Or do the laws proposed by the representatives in his party only apply to the "little" people?
Everyone that's been following the health insurance reform agenda has become aware that monetary awards to the victims of medical malpractice are a burr under the Republican saddle. Partly, I'd wager, that's because one of the primary objectives of the party of 'NO' is to say "no" to social responsibilities of all kinds. So, to their way of thinking, if a person chooses wrongly and ends up with a negligent doctor or nurse, it's his/her own fault. After all, that's what personal responsibility is about. Whatever the fates impose (flood, drought, asphyxiation or drowning on a board) is the individual's own fault.
Clearly, some people don't agree and because our society has determined that the law is an appropriate buffer between man and the fates, we have a cadre of lawyers.
In New Hampshire, the influence of that cadre on medical matters is growing, as the most recent offering from Abramson, Brown and Dugan attests.
