Nevada Appeal, Carson City, NV - Apr 21, 2009
...The final vote was 26-15 to send the legislation to the Senate. The vote was primarily along party lines with Republicans opposed to the change...
Bill hiking malpractice cap gutted
The Denver Post, CO - Apr 21, 2009
...The watering down of House Bill 1344 came during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee and frustrated the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, which had been optimistic the restrictions would be lifted...
Editorial: State has the stronger claim
Concord Monitor, NH - Apr 21, 2009
...It is parked in a fund set up by the Legislature in 1975 to meet what was then a critical need for medical malpractice insurance that doctors and other providers were having a hard time buying...
Details of Pa. governor's budget plans
PhillyBurbs.com (Associated Press) - Apr 20, 2009
...Divert more than $900 million from state parks, a doctors' malpractice insurance fund and state workers' health benefits...
Legislators gut lawsuit caps in medical-malpractice bill
Denver Business Journal, CO - Apr 20, 2009
...would still make medical malpractice insurers get prior approval from Colorado’s insurance commissioner before they can raise premiums by more than 5 percent a year. The commissioner also could set hearings on proposed premium hikes when deemed necessary...
Supreme Court steps in to break logjam of malpractice cases
Las Vegas Business Press, NV - Apr 20, 2009
...The Supreme Court has arranged for retired judges from the senior judge program to help settle some of the more than 400 pending cases. Settlement conferences are scheduled through May to deal with the first 72 lawsuits...
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