Tort Reform or Immunizing the Guilty?

SEE HERE There is an on-going issue about whether the tort system is being gamed by the lawyers who tell heartrending stories to exact exorbitant awards from sympathetic juries? There is another side to the issue as well however, and this piece makes it. I think there is a need for tort-reform, but it's a small step from reform to abuse in the other direction, that of shutting down the fair redress of grievances suffered by the victims of incompetence and intentional neglect and malfeasance. How to draw the line? The stock answer is "very carefully." A line needs to be drawn, but it should not protect the guilty from the adverse impact of their actions.