In addition, the medical community reports serious problems with the medical liability system.

"We need to fix a broken medical liability system," he said, and he called on Congress to act this year.

THE medical liability system, health care analysts agree, is deeply flawed.

At the same time, the medical liability system urgently needs reform.

Other estimates conclude that the cost of the medical liability system, including defensive medicine, is up to 3%.

In reality, the liability system unfairly penalizes thousands of people like me.

Studies show that the injured receive too few of the dollars spent in the liability system.

"We need to fix a broken medical liability system," he said.

The liability systems in the individual Member States - and this is my fourth point - are still highly diverse.

Of course, we also need - as you mentioned - a fair liability system to compensate damage.