Cap on jury awards could be in jeopardy in Montgomery case
The Gazette, Gaithersburg, MD - May 27, 2009
...Maryland has had a cap on damages for years. In his ruling, Debelius said the legislature specifically changed a law on the books since 1986 that applied the cap generally to only cases that pass through the Health Claims Arbitration Panel. The appeal has drawn the support of MedChi, the Maryland state medical society, and the Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland, the largest insurer of physicians in the state...

Health-care issue hashed out
Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, AZ - May 27, 2009
...Those possibilities include tort reform to reduce costs of medical malpractice cases; streamlining electronic medical records; and revamping the Medicare system by reducing the number of plans available...

Most malpractice suits have one thing in common: the personality factor
Modern Medicine - May 27, 2009
...What may be surprising, however, is the level of control that individual physicians actually have in whether or not they wind up at the receiving end of a medical malpractice suit...