Oklahoma physicians push for liability protections
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Apr 27, 2009
..The tort reform legislation, approved by the House in late March, would cap noneconomic damages in various types of civil liability cases, including medical negligence suits, at $300,000...

Opinion - Bert Marshall: Aiding our health, economy
The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, OK - Apr 27, 2009
...Physicians in Oklahoma are at a disadvantage compared with those in our neighboring states that have enacted medical malpractice reform...

Has malpractice crisis been cured?
The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Apr 27, 2009
Medical malpractice law suits keep getting rarer in Pennsylvania. But that doesn't mean the closely related debate over who are the true victims of the medical malpractice system -- patients or doctors -- has faded away...

Editorial: As his term winds down, Rendell has plenty on his plate
The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Apr 26, 2009
...Rendell wants to tap the "M-Care Abatement" fund, the money set aside for catastrophic malpractice lawsuit settlements. It's a complicated financial maneuver that is not as straightforward as the governor makes it sounds...

Number of Pennsylvania medical lawsuits drops
The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Apr 24, 2009
..That's a 40 percent drop from 2000, 2001 and 2002, when the state averaged 2,732 medical malpractice lawsuits per year. The lawsuit climate in those years had doctors threatening to leave the state...

Malpractice bill emerges toothless from House
The Colorado Statesman, Denver, CO - Apr 24, 2009
For the second time in two years, it appears efforts to revise Colorado’s medical malpractice law have been thwarted...

Medical malpractice suits on the rise
Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA - Apr 24, 2009
The number of medical malpractice cases filed in Georgia is starting to rise again, four years after 2005’s tort reform cut the number of cases by 20 percent...