Deadline near for patient safety/liability reform proposals
American Medical News, Chicago, IL – Jan 4, 2010
The Jan. 20 deadline is approaching for states and health systems looking to grab federal grant money dedicated to testing new approaches to improving patient safety and reducing medical liability pressures on physicians…

Ohio court to decide what damages are reasonable
American Medical News, Chicago, IL – Jan 4, 2010
… Because the high court's interpretation of the collateral source rule has broad implications for medical liability judgments, the case has garnered significant attention from the physician community…

Medical malpractice suits drop with new requirements
Nashville Public Radio, TN – Jan 4, 2010
The number of medical malpractice cases filed in Tennessee has dropped 60% this year. The steep decline in lawsuits stems from two new screening requirements…

Opinion – Paul Carpenter: Dentist’s column on tort very logical
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Jan 3, 2010
… He pointed out that both of Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators voted against legislation to cap the obscene fees that contingency fee lawyers are allowed to charge in medical malpractice cases…

Editorial: There’s no health care reform without cost control
Worcester Business Journal, MA – Jan 3, 2010
… Spending money on so-called reforms, while ignoring the fundamental flaws in our health care system (like the skyrocketing cost of medical malpractice insurance and the over-use of million-dollar surgical gizmos) would be a giant disservice to the American taxpayer…

State of the state in 2010
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA – Jan 2, 2010
…Some critics say that balancing the 2010-11 budget could be especially difficult because one-time revenue sources, such as a $700 million account to defray doctors' medical malpractice costs and the state's $750 million "rainy day fund," were used up to balance the current budget…

Year’s first births highlight concerns in Phila.
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA – Jan 2, 2010
… "Hospitals are being squeezed by low insurance payments, especially from Medicaid; the high cost of medical liability insurance; and a shortage of obstetricians," said Ken Braithwaite…

Editorial: Health care bill worthy of passage
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL – Jan 2, 2010
… For this reason, we're disappointed the Senate ruled out a public insurance option, and neither chamber made a serious stab at medical malpractice reform, interstate insurance sales or changing the cost-inflating system that pays providers for the quantity, not quality, of care…