‘Hypocritical’ Senator
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) has sponsored several pieces of legislation intended to limit awards in medical malpractice lawsuits--including a 1994 bill that would have capped noneconomic damages at $250,000.
The senator’s wife, however, recently won a medical malpractice lawsuit against her chiropractor. The amount of her award? $350,000.
Democrats responded indignantly.
“If you don’t think someone who ran a race vilifying trial lawyers . . . and then uses a trial lawyer to secure hundreds of thousands of dollars in noneconomic damages in a malpractice suit is hypocritical, then Rick Santorum’s your guy,” Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesman David DiMartino told the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call.
A Santorum spokesman said Mary Santorum never asked the senator for his opinion of the lawsuit and Santorum never offered.
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