Jay Inslee: “there are better ways to solve this problem than to strip Americans of the right to trial by jury. Fundamentally, this…”

“there are better ways to solve this problem than to strip Americans of the right to trial by jury. Fundamentally, this bill takes the right of trial by jury of your peers away from Americans and gives that authority to politicians who have never heard any of the evidence. Take this case about a 4-year-old girl I know from Yakima, Washington, named Nichole. Several years ago, she went in with a urinary tract problem. The doctors put in a foley catheter. When you do that, there is a balloon they put in your bladder that is inflated to hold the catheter. This was traumatic to this 4-year-old girl. When they went to deflate the catheter, it would not deflate. So they tried to deflate it by sticking a steel wire up through her urethra to try to puncture the balloon so they could pull the catheter out. They tried it many times. This was traumatic to this young girl. It did not work. So they finally had to inject a solvent up her urethra to dissolve the rubber and it dissolved the rubber and it also dissolved part of her bladder and severely burned her bladder because of the malfunction of a negligently designed and manufactured foley catheter. Now, who is better to make a decision for that 4-year-old girl about what is justice?…”