Two years ago, America's second-largest malpractice underwriter, St Paul, created a stir by announcing that it would pull out of the malpracticebusiness altogether.
The Democrats will charge that the Republicans, by limiting malpractice suits, are still in hock to big business (although the health-care industry opposes the Republicans' plan just as it does the Democrats' one).
Like other states, Florida's medical malpractice reform has changed the ultimate risk calculations for many business defendants by increasing the likelihood that higher courts will reverse disproportionately large jury awards and other seemingly wacky court decisions on appeal.