Battle looms over government health plan
State Journal, Charleston, WV - Jun 25, 2009
...And there is one reform the AMA is seeking that Obama hasn't embraced: malpractice reform, particularly caps on certain kinds of lawsuits. Jenkins pointed to West Virginia's own reforms of a few years ago as an example of the type of reforms the AMA would like to see take place nationwide...

Schumer bill would allow veterans to sue for malpractice
Times Herald-Record, Middletown, NY - Jun 25, 2009
...Soldiers currently are prevented from suing the military for malpractice, by a precedent established by the Supreme Court in 1950. The House of Representatives bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Maurice Hinchey...

Deep cuts, higher fees on the way
Concord Monitor, Concord, NH - Jun 25, 2009
...Republicans criticized the budget as unsustainable, noting that it relies on about $400 million in one-shot financing, including federal stimulus money and a total of $110 million seized from the surplus of a state-created, decades-old medical malpractice fund...

Opinion - Lawrence E. Smaar: A 'broken system'
USA Today - Jun 25, 2009
The legal process for identifying and resolving real cases of medical negligence in America is woefully inefficient and costly in terms of economic and emotional stress...

Opinion - James Eaves: Looking for competition in all the wrong places
American Thinker, El Cerrito, CA - Jun 25, 2009
...Doctors use patients' insensitivity to cost as an additional form of malpractice insurance: doctors prescribe precautionary services (an MRI, X-ray, a longer hospital stay...) that they wouldn't otherwise prescribe if they had no chance of being sued and consumers cared about cost...

Allen's Med-mal bill clears House committee
Arizona Capitol Times, Phoenix, AZ - Jun 24, 2009
...S1018 would raise the bar of proof required to convict an emergency room physician of negligence to “clear and convincing” evidence, the most stringent level of proof required for civil cases. State courts currently use a “preponderance of evidence” measure when ruling on malpractice cases...