The announcement that the Diocese of Wilmington is filing for Chapter 11 protection in the face of 141 different complaints of child sexual abuse has given me pause to think about another issue ... medical tort reform. How are these two connected? I read in another source that the diocese has on hand assets equaling roughly $50-100 million, but could face debts of $100-500 million from these cases. According to the letter that the CBO sent Senator Orrin Hatch regarding medical tort reform , the nation would save $54 billion in part by placing a $250 K cap on "pain and suffering" awards and a $500 K cap on "punitive" damages. That would mean, if these cases were ajudicated under that standards for child sexual abuse, that the most the Diocese would be on the hook for would be $750 K/person times 141 case, equalling $105.75 million. Had the Diocese been the beneficiary of that sort of tort reform, it probably would not have had to declare bankruptcy. Which is a probl...