Q+A: What's the point of Obama's healthcare summit?
Reuters - Feb 25, 2010
...They want a simpler, less costly step-by-step approach that would limit medical malpractice lawsuits, allow small businesses to form health insurance groups and permit insurers to sell policies across state lines...

Obama's health talks will underscore party divisions
BusinessWeek - Feb 25, 2010
...Obama and his fellow Democrats plan an increase in government assistance; Republicans more often bring up the need to limit medical malpractice lawsuits...

Editorial: Enough talk; pass a health reform bill
The Milford Daily News, Milford, MA - Feb 25, 2010
...We'd be happy to see malpractice reform and some expansion of health insurance competition across state lines...

Editorial: Health care: Doing nothing not an option
The Charlotte Observer, NC - Feb 25, 2010
..."End junk lawsuits"? It encourages states to develop new malpractice systems. (The cost of malpractice lawsuits themselves, including legal fees, insurance costs and payouts, amounts to less than half of 1 percent of health-care spending.)...

Opinion - John F. Cogan, Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel Kessler: A better way to reform health care
Wall Street Journal, New York, NY - Feb 25, 2010
...Three policy changes will go a long way to achieving these objectives: (1) eliminate the tax code's bias that favors health insurance over out-of-pocket spending; (2) remove state-government barriers to purchasing and providing health services; and (3) reform medical malpractice laws...

Opinion - Stephen C. Schimpff: Beyond health care 'rights'
Baltimore Sun, MD - Feb 25, 2010
...Doctors who want malpractice reform (a right) need to do their part to markedly improve patient safety (a responsibility). In this model, both doctor and payer/patient have their rights and their responsibilities - resulting in better care, healthier patients, less-stressed physicians and reduced total costs to the system...

Opinion - Arnold 'Duke' Livermore: The problem: Cost control, not insurers
News-Journal, Daytona Beach, FL - Feb 25, 2010
...Second, our current malpractice system is another significant contributor of unnecessary costs. Additional regulation in this area, including the establishment of Health Courts, could eliminate the waste caused by defensive medicine ...

Preparing for a health debate, and for its TV audience
New York Times, NY - Feb 24, 2010
...One way Mr. Obama could throw Republicans off stride would be to make a bold opening offer to embrace one of their health care priorities, like limitingmedical malpractice lawsuits — an idea one Democrat close to the White House said had been under consideration...

ProAssurance profits up 25% in '09
Birmingham Business Journal, AL - Feb 24, 2010
...The Birmingham-based medical malpractice insurer posted $222 million in net income for the year ended Dec. 31...

House okays repeal of health insurers' antitrust exemption
National Underwriter, Hoboken, NJ - Feb 24, 2010
...Approval for the “Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act” came on a 406-19 vote. The measure did not repeal the antitrust exemption for medical malpractice insurers...

US House slaps antitrust law on health insurers
Reuters - Feb 24, 2010
...The Senate Judiciary Committee's version of the legislation is narrower in some ways than the House version, although the Senate bill also strips medical malpractice insurers of their antitrust exemption. Obama has said that he would sign the repeal into law...