The Price of Life
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Brief of "The Price of Life" Kindle Book :Eight-year-old Jennifer Haller’s brain tumor is killing her. A timely CT scan would likely have saved her, and a new surgery offers hope for a cure, but Julie Haller is crushed when their insurance company refuses to pay for her daughter’s operation.
Shortly after Jennifer’s diagnosis, Marine Captain Ed Haller loses his leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq. He comes home to rehabilitate while Jennifer wages her own losing battle with cancer and its treatment. Jennifer’s death leads the family to Fort Worth lawyer Grant Mercer, whom they hire to sue Jennifer’s neurologist.
As Mercer works the case, Julie Haller learns the results of recent tort reform efforts, including a $250,000 limit in medical malpractice cases. She and her husband realize that a quarter-million dollar price tag on a beloved eight-year-old girl is simply inconceivable. They have no interest in the money, focusing instead on their responsibility to honor their daughter by seeking justice for her death.
The murders of a lobbyist in Austin, a state senator on a remote country road, and an insurance executive in New York seem unrelated until Jennifer’s doctor is kidnapped. Mercer makes the disturbing connection between the victims and his case, and discovers how far some people will go when the usual avenues of justice are too sharply curtailed.
Ages 18+
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
RevengeBy Ted Feit
This novel contains many of the pluses and minuses typical of a first novel. It has the germ of a good idea for a plot, many interesting observations, and excellent expert information based on the author's background. The author has practiced law in Texas for more than two decades, primarily in the areas of personal injury and medical practice. And it is from this experience that the kindle book was born. Unfortunately, biographies do not make for a good murder mystery, and the kindle book is overloaded with too many situations and conversations that are obviously derived from Mr. McCarthy's life and law practice, many of which should have been edited out as irrelevant.
The plot, however, is a good one: An eight-year-old girl suffering from a brain tumor is denied insurance coverage for an "experimental" operation to remove it. Her father, a U.S. Marine Captain who has served four tours in Iraq, returns home just as she dies. Her death might have been prevented a year earlier had the physician ordered an MRI and discovered the tumor when it was small and could be removed. Thus, a medical malpractice suit brought by attorney Grant Mercer, who suffers from his own form of burnout. And the inevitable discovery of political machinations to limit awards for malpractice to almost nothing, as well as the extremes to which people will go to obtain "justice."
The aspects of the legal ramifications of limiting malpractice awards and the details about bringing cases through the system, including depositions, are necessary for the reader to understand the subject, though overly detailed. That said, it is unfortunate that too often there are lengthy tirades on a variety of subjects which probably could have been eliminated. While an interesting effort, I suspect it could have been much better.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great first book.By BDK
I read probably 15 to 20 books a month and most of them are thrillers. I think Greg McCarthy has a great future writing. He will be right up there with all the others!
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