Nancy Pelosi heads for a two-track plan for health care reform
Politico, Washington, DC - Feb 3, 2010
...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to take a shot at the health insurance industry next week by scheduling a vote on a smaller bill to revoke its half-century-old exemption from antitrust laws...

SC lawmakers to discuss new lawsuit limits
The State, Columbia, SC - Feb 3, 2010
...A Senate Judiciary panel takes up legislation that would limit lawsuit awards Wednesday. The bill would broaden 2005 limits placed on medical malpractice claims to other litigation...

Editorial: Hitting a new low
Observer-Reporter, Washington, PA - Feb 3, 2010
...No wonder tort reform has such a following. You would think that the Bar Association might discourage such unseemly and unprofessional advertising...

Editorial: State should make it easier for doctors to apologize
The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA - Feb 3, 2010
...Here in Massachusetts, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony last week on several bills addressing this issue. As it has in the past, the state should once again show leadership in the field of health insurance by writing such malpractice reforms into law.

Illinois SC expected to releaser med-mal opinion
LegalNewsline, Chicago, IL - Feb 2, 2010
The Illinois Supreme Court is expected Thursday to file its opinion on the constitutionality of the state's landmark medical malpractice reform law...

NAIFA, FSR join P-C groups to oppose FTC authority proposal
National Underwriter, Hoboken, NJ - Feb 2, 2010
...The proposed bill also could end the antitrust exemption afforded health insurers and medical malpractice insurers by the McCarran-Ferguson Act...

Keep antitrust exemption, insurer groups urge House
National Underwriter, Hoboken, NJ - Feb 2, 2010
Insurance trade groups are asking the House to reject proposed legislation that would end the antitrust exemption afforded health and medical malpractice insurers by the McCarran-Ferguson Act...