Legislation would curb malpractice costs
Standard Speaker, Hazleton, PA - Feb 8, 2010
...One bill by Sen. John Rafferty, R-44, Collegeville, would keep the basic medical liability coverage level that doctors must obtain from the private market at $500,000. This would be accomplished by removing the state insurance commissioner's authority to conduct market studies that could conceivably increase that coverage level to $750,000 or even $1 million, proponents said...

Editorial: Five ideas for getting health care reform back on track
USA Today - Feb 8, 2010
...Add malpractice reform. Democrats resisted any true malpractice reform provision, painting themselves as captives of the trial lawyers' lobby...

Editorial: Moderating malpractice costs
The Baltimore Sun, MD - Feb 8, 2010
...Medical malpractice litigation is still an area that operates as a kind of high-stakes lottery where patients and medical practitioners alike win or lose on the most capricious of circumstances -- actual injury and physician malpractice not always proving to be significant factors...

Opinion - Bruce Bialosky: Real healthcare reform: Kill the lawyers
Townhall.com, Arlington, VA - Feb 8, 2010
...Toward that end, I have a proposal. We need to establish a separate forum to handle claims of medical malpractice...

Source: Obama, congressional leaders to talk health care Feb. 25
CNN - Feb 7, 2010
...Republicans complain the comprehensive Democratic health care bills would lead to a government takeover of health care. They call for smaller steps focused on individual issues, such as limiting medical malpractice lawsuits...

Apologies might save docs from being sued
The Wichita Eagle, KS - Feb 7, 2010
..."I'm sorry" laws are seen as a potential cost-saving move by the Physician Insurers Association of America, which represents medical liability insurers across the country that are owned and operated by medical professionals and cover about 60 percent of doctors...

Malpractice bill seeks to cap awards for pain and suffering
Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, UT - Feb 6, 2010
Victims of medical malpractice could see the amount of damages they could receive cut in half under a bill that is likely to pit the state's physicians against the lawyers who represent injured patients...

Medical lawsuits: Decline in claims cited as success
Columbus Dispatch, OH - Feb 6, 2010
Medical-malpractice claims continue to fall in Ohio, which doctors say is proof that state limits on damages passed in 2003 are having a positive effect...

Illinois revises medical malpractice law
LawyersandSettlements.com, Santa Cruz, CA - Feb 6, 2010
On February 4, 2009 the Illinois Supreme Court voted against the state's medical malpractice law and decided that limits on damages awarded to victims of medical negligence are unconstitutional. Now, Illinois patients may have greater access to health care and lower medical liability rates...

Editorial: Decision harms health care reform
Madison/St. Clair Record, Edwardsville, IL - Feb 6, 2010
...The court has overreached, and the legislature needs to pass new, carefully crafted legislation that creates caps on medical damages and also meets the imposed standards of the court...