Hospitals offer to take pregnant patients
The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Mar 25, 2009
...The three hospitals are evidence that even in a region that has lost 17 maternity units since 1997 - victims, hospitals say, of poor funding and high malpractice costs - there are still some welcoming beds for women in labor...

Opinion - Charles M. Arlinghaus: State is wrongly seizing private funds
Union Leader, Manchester, NH - Mar 25, 2009
...The medical malpractice fund is a privately funded high-risk insurance pool administered by a private company through a provision in state law for joint underwriting agreements. The state doesn't pay for it or administer it. It is merely set up through state rules that allow for such joint agreements...

Judge denies move to oust prison receiver
Los Angeles Daily News, CA (Associated Press) - Mar 25, 2009
...Henderson gave the receiver control of the prison medical system in 2006 after finding conditions in the state's 33 adult prisons so bad that an average of an inmate a week was dying of neglect or malpractice. That hasn't changed, he said in Tuesday's ruling...

Congress mulls malpractice bill for military
The Times Herald Record, Middletown, NY - Mar 25, 2009
Congress is considering legislation that would allow members of the military to sue the government for medical malpractice. The bill is an about-face over current policy, which shields the military from all medical negligence lawsuits...

NC offers malpractice agreement
Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - Mar 25, 2009
State lawmakers presented a compromise Tuesday in a dispute between doctors and state medical regulators over how much information about malpractice judgments and settlements should be made public...

Less disclosure sought for medical-malpractice cases
Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - Mar 24, 2009
..."As we continue to talk about tort reform as it relates to medical malpractice," Rapp said, "I think the one thing that we are always lacking is information, solid information."

Northeastern Hospital closing
WHYY Radio, Philadelphia, PA - Mar 24, 2009
...Kolker says malpractice and reimbursement reform has to happen at the state level to ensure that hospitals will be able to handle Philadelphia’s approximately 20,000 births a year...