Cap on nursing home damages fails
The Tennessean, Nashville, TN (Associated Press) - Apr 22, 2009
...A proposal to place caps on damages in lawsuits against nursing homes failed in a House subcommittee on Tuesday, but the sponsor says he will try again next year...

Editorial: Start over on malpractice bill
The Denver Post, CO - Apr 22, 2009
...The process of setting caps on malpractice awards is meant to prevent headline-grabbing, out-of-control jury awards that might steer talented doctors away from Colorado. But when doctors make mistakes, the victims deserve reasonable awards...

Hospitals need life support
The Times Herald Record, Middletown, NY - Apr 22, 2009
...Doctors leaving New York to escape low reimbursements and astronomical malpractice insurance costs. It's enough to make a hospital CEO sick...

Opinion - Jason D. Fodeman: Making the health care crisis worse
The Standard Times, New Bedford, MA - Apr 22, 2009
...Exorbitant malpractice awards and settlements drain billions of dollars from the health system — and into attorneys' pockets — every year...

Ruling: No cap applies
Maryland Daily Record, Baltimore, MD - Apr 21, 2009
A Montgomery County judge has declined to cap the non-economic damages in a multimillion-dollar medical malpractice verdict, saying the state’s limit on such awards applies only to lawsuits that were first submitted to arbitration...

Revised medical-malpractice bill sails along
Denver Business Journal, CO - Apr 21, 2009
A bill making medical-malpractice insurers get approval from Colorado’s insurance commissioner before they could raise premiums by more than 5 percent a year is moving quickly through the House of Representatives...