Nevada Appeal, Carson City, NV (Associated Press) - Apr 6, 2009
Nevada lawmakers start the 10th week of their 2009 session today by reviewing a plan stemming from the Hepatitis C outbreak in Southern Nevada that would allow bigger lawsuit awards as a result of negligence by medical professionals...
Bill on malpractice-suit cap returns
Denver Post, CO - Apr 6, 2009
After failing in 2008, supporters of legislation to allow injured patients more money in medical malpractice lawsuits are trying again this year — with only five weeks left in the session...
Ariz. high court validates standards for expert witnesses in liability cases
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Apr 6, 2009
...The Arizona Supreme Court in March upheld the constitutionality of a 2005 law establishing minimum qualifications for expert witnesses who testify in medical liability cases...
Editorial: Court missed opportunity to limit punitive damages
Reading Eagle, Reading, PA - Apr 6, 2009
...the Supreme Court's ruling could have an impact that extends far beyond the tobacco industry into such fields as medical malpractice, for example...
Opinion - Lee Egerstrom: Go slow on proposal to ease Minnesota's insurance protections
MinnPost, Minneapolis, MN - Apr 6, 2009
...That means policies such as boat insurance, crop-hail insurance, directors and officers insurance, medical malpractice insurance, professional liability insurance and pet insurance, for a few prominent examples, would no longer be given prior approval before flying through the market place...
Lawsuit challenges tort reform in Texas
Texarkana Gazette, TX - Apr 5, 2009
...The Medical and Malpractice Tort Reform Act of 2003 was touted by proponents as a means to deter the filing of frivolous suits...
Doctor shortages hit Maryland
The Frederick News-Post, Frederick, MD - Apr 5, 2009
...Maryland's average malpractice award payment is nearly $320,000, about $35,000 more than the national average, according to a study released in December by the American College of Emergency Physicians...
Opinion - Robert Kessler: Lawsuits only make malpractice worse
Las Vegas Sun, NV - Apr 5, 2009
...No system is perfect but the answer isn’t repealing tort reform, which has increased physician numbers and patient access to care, sextupled the number of insurers, and saved Nevadans millions of dollars in just five years...
Opinion - Philip K. Howard: Health care also needs legal reform
Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN - Apr 5, 2009
...Doctors and nurses don't want to speak up, for fear of assuming legal liability, and this causes unnecessary errors. Under instructions from lawyers, they don't apologize or offer explanations when things go wrong...
Editorial: We think: State needs fair budget
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Apr 5, 2009
...Lawmakers could also stand up to the medical and business lobbies, who've got them interested in making the cost to file medical malpractice and home foreclosure lawsuits so prohibitive that some victims might not pursue them...
Editorial: Securing health-care coverage
Barrons, New York, NY - Apr 4, 2009
...As a first step, however, he has offered a plan estimated to cost about $60 billion a year. It would require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions at administered prices, fix prices for malpractice insurance, subsidize workplace health-insurance premiums and individual private premiums...
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