Tim Scott: “in these cases, all the victim knows is that he was injured. If you have a doctor who is clearly negligent, the doctor…”

“in these cases, all the victim knows is that he was injured. If you have a doctor who is clearly negligent, the doctor can escape some liability by saying it was 5 percent the nurse's fault, 10 percent the anesthesiologist's, 10 percent the hospital, 10 percent the product, and now where are we in the lawsuit? The plaintiff has to have five different defendants, five different sets of lawyers, five different judgments, five different collections, some insolvent. This consumer just has to, I guess, get over it. They are not going to be able to become whole. Mr. Chairman, we have always had loser pays. Even if they win, they might be having to pay opposing counsel. We have limited damages. We have come up with new defenses. Mr. Chairman, this reduces the accountability of wrongdoers. It allows wrongdoers to escape responsibility for their actions, at the expense of the innocent victims. Consumer protection is taking another giant step backward. I would hope that we would defeat this amendment.”