Talk:United States tort law

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Question

What is the history of medical malpractice or medical negligence in U.S.A? Whether doctors are liable under tort law or contract law?how many states in U.S.A has a legislation for medical malpractice cases?

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Where are all the Americans who should be editing this page! It's astonishing that nothing has been done yet (I made similar comments on the talk of the US contract law page). I know there is not one tort law for the whole country, and that states have their own regimes. But surely we can have something! Wik idea 17:36, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just saw your question almost 15 years later. The reason is that American tort law is a gigantic mess (go read conflict of laws in the United States). Most Americans who have sufficient knowledge of American tort law to summarize it coherently are either too busy working on their next law review article or textbook, litigating cases, serving in the judiciary, or volunteering for organizations like the American Law Institute, the Uniform Law Commission, or a bar association (local, state, national) to contribute to Wikipedia. Or they're working on an actual book, like The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Torts, which is an excellent summary of the subject. With so much great published material already out there, anyone with that level of knowledge and experience either doesn't feel like it's worth it to reinvent the wheel on Wikipedia, or they would rather write their own book and get it published.

Keep in mind it took me over five years just to get around to researching and rewriting product liability and another three years to actually do it (and that's only because I know the subject very well). So there's no way I'm ever going to get around to rewriting this article when there are many more specific articles that I am more interested in working on. --Coolcaesar (talk) 14:49, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]