FierceHealthcare - Dec 16, 2009
...What's driving these doctors to change their practices? The malpractice situation in this area of medicine. OB/GYNs are among the top three specialties in the rate of medical malpractice cases...
Opinion - Janet Golden: History echoes in care crisis
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Dec 16, 2009
...Meanwhile, low rates for Medicaid services and high malpractice-insurance costs may well lead even more practitioners to stop providing obstetric services to those in need...
Opinion - Richard Stacy: Sen. Michael Bennet's elitism
The Denver Post, CO - Dec 16, 2009
...Medical malpractice rates are driving costs out of sight and doctors out of practice. Reasonable caps need to be placed on non-economic damages...
Lawsuit activity costs may rise 3% this year, study says
National Underwriter, Hoboken, NJ - Dec 15, 2009
...with the potential for increases in the areas of employment practices and medical malpractice, as well as litigation associated with professional services errors and omissions in the wake of the financial crisis, Towers Perrin said it is estimating that U.S. tort costs will increase 3 percent in 2009, an additional 4 percent in 2010 and 6 percent in 2011...
Group names new 'judicial hellholes'
Business Insurance - Dec 15, 2009
...Other jurisdictions on the list of what the Washington-based tort reform group considers to be the “most unfair civil court jurisdictions” include South Florida; West Virginia; Cook County, Ill.; and Atlantic County, N.J...
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