NH medical society challenges state taking $110 m
Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover, NH (Associated Press) - Apr 20, 2009
The New Hampshire Medical Society says the state has no right to take a $110 million surplus from a state fund that underwrites malpractice insurance and use it for other purposes in the state budget...

In years past
The Post-Journal, Jamestown, NY - Apr 20, 2009
...In 1984, a court's ruling that lawyers' fees in malpractice suits could not be limited would lead to higher insurance costs for doctors, the Pennsylvania Medical Society said. The state Supreme Court struck down a section of a 1975 law that contained the limits on legal fees as well as other restrictions on malpractice suits...

Health care's cure: Electronic records
Forbes.com - Apr 20, 2009
...Electronic records can alert health care staff to allergies, potential complications that can cost enormous sums of money to fix, and thereby avoid malpractice suits. These records can also lower doctors' insurance, eliminate redundant tests, speed up treatment and cut costs across the board...

Making sure your patients know what you're saying
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Apr 20, 2009
...California recently became the first state to require health insurers to pay for interpreters for members with limited English-speaking abilities in doctors' offices and other facilities. The law applies to the most common language or second most common spoken by an insurers' members...

Opinion - W. Ben Vernon: Trial lawyers asking only what's in it for them
The Pueblo Chieftan, CO - Apr 19, 2009
...Seventy percent of the money consumed in a malpractice suit goes to feeding the process and the attorneys, not to compensating an injured patient. It takes years to resolve those cases, and more than two-thirds of them are determined to be without merit and simply go away after an extravagant waste of precious health care dollars...

The suit for more suing
Southeast Texas Record, Beaumont, TX - Apr 18, 2009
...This lawsuit, brought by a group of plaintiff's lawyers seeking to gut House Bill 4, otherwise known as Texas' medical liability reform, is about something less cerebral and more primal: money...

Opinion - Anthony C. Raccuglia: Don't call lawyers 'greedy' until you know the facts
Morris Daily Herald, Morris, IL - Apr 17, 2009
...Pity each of you if ever we trial lawyers decide it isn’t worth it and reject all medical and product liability negligence claims against those big corporations and the doctors. Don’t be so quick to blame lawyers until you know all the facts...