Law Review: A prescription on health-care reform
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Jan 26, 2010
...He says this is what Duane Morris did during Pennsylvania's medical-malpractice crisis several years ago. The firm established an affiliated medical-malpractice insurance company in which doctors were given ownership interests and encouraged to settle malpractice claims early...

GOP struggles for consensus on health care
National Public Radio - Jan 26, 2010
...But it's also important, Nichols says, for federal officials to "recognize that states are the place where medical malpractice jurisdiction lies, and therefore it's better to have local medical communities in the states work this out."...

Industry execs diagnose health care bills' effectiveness
The Virginian-Pilot, Hampton Roads, VA - Jan 26, 2010
...The Senate bill also provides for grants to states to develop more effective medical liability systems. But officials with local providers and insurance companies said they would have liked to see more attention to “tort reform”...

Editorial: Doomsayers take note: Voters still deserve health reform
The Boston Globe, MA - Jan 26, 2010
...One concession to bipartisanship that Democrats should have made is a commitment to medical malpractice reform - a good idea on its merits. Democrats should now get together with Republicans and design a separate bill to change a dysfunctional tort system...

Opinion - Daniel Oliver: Three smooth stones
The American Spectator, Arlington, VA - Jan 26, 2010
...Propose a simple (one-page?) health care bill: a bill that fixes one or at most two problems with the current system. The bill could limit damages from medical malpractice suits, and put federal money into state high-risk pools...