State Court Candidate Roggensack and Special Interest Backers Tout Her Experience ...
Madison -- Big special interests $600,000 plus advertising blitz supporting the campaign of Pat Roggensack for the State Supreme Court touts her experience, but according to One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross, unless you are a corporation like an insurance company, Roggensacks experience has been issuing opinions taking their side over yours.
Ross commented, Pat Roggensack and her special interest backers like to talk about her experience and the number of cases shes decided. But instead of just focusing on the number of cases, we took a look at whose side shes taking in these cases and we found that unless youre a big corporation or well-funded special interest, your experience with Roggensack is that shes more much more likely to take their side, even when a majority of her colleagues disagree.
Ross cited Roggensacks opinion in the Touchpoint Health Plan case as just one example of her consistent pro-corporate bias. In her minority dissent, Roggensack supported an insurance companys refusal to pay for the doctor recommended treatment of a three year-old boy with a cancerous brain tumor. A majority of the court disagreed with Roggensacks support for the insurance company, finding the denial of coverage for the boys cancer treatment was arbitrary and capricious.
He said, On the court, Roggensack has sided with the big insurance companies, and against patients and victims. In this case, she ruled it was reasonable for life saving treatment to be denied a three year-old boy, even though her colleagues and the companys own independent review disagreed.
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