Review Journal, Las Vegas, NV - Jan 5, 2010
...Another state law places a $350,000 limit on the amount of punitive damages a patient can recover in medical malpractice cases...
Docs deflect increasing malpractice claims
Memphis Daily News, TN - Jan 5, 2010
...Physicians and their insurance companies traditionally close up to 85 percent of malpractice cases without paying a penny to plaintiffs. But in the latest year of data available, 2007, the cost of those wins was up 17.5 percent...
CBO confirms its support of med mal reform
Physicians News Digest, Warminster, PA - Jan 4, 2010
...Supposing the passage of medical malpractice reform, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) upped their projected savings to $54 billion from $5 billion over the next 10 years. Several lawmakers, particularly former ambulance chasers, were not satisfied with the new estimates and asked for more detail...
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