TORT REFORM THIS!
Posted: Thursday, August 3rd 2006
Biomedical Tissue Services (and a few of the vultures who ran that company) ignored the rules and regulations governing the harvesting and use of tissue from cadavers. Actually, that’s an understatement. They carved up bodies without the consent of the deceased person’s family.
They ignored the reality that many Americans would become sick, require additional therapy or even die from this diseased tissue.
They doctored the paperwork required for such tissue harvesting. They hid the fact that some of this bone and tissue was diseased. Furthermore, they ignored the reality that many Americans would become sick, require additional therapy or even die from this diseased tissue.
But Biomedical Tissue Services made money. Lots of money. One body could make the company $7,000. The company’s owner lives in a 1.5 million dollar house.
Authorities investigating these criminal acts claim some of the bodies were deboned beneath the waste like a cleaned fish. Other bodies had PVC pipe inserted where the bones used to be.
Many tort reform laws would limit family members compensation for non-economic loss (the absolute horrific shock of knowing your loved one’s body was subject to this so some corporate psychopath can get rich) to $250,000. Punitive damages, to punish these fiends, would be limited or simply not allowed.
The next time you hear some tort reform lacky talking about the need for justice, just remember the families victimized by Biomedical Tissue Services.