Medical-malpractice defense lawyer Erin Lunceford is used to people assuming that the ten-year-old omnibus tort reform law known as HB 4 destroyed her practice — even those who should know better.
Three years ago, her husband introduced her to Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst at a political event and mentioned that she defended doctors and hospitals from medical-malpractice cases for a living. “And [Dewhurst] said: ‘Didn’t we get rid of that?’ ” she recalls of her conversation with the man who presided over the bill’s passage in 2003 during his first year in office.
