State budget agreement unlikely to meet deadline
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Jun 30, 2009
...and dip into the state's $750 million Rainy Day Fund for emergencies and the $700 million surplus in a fund that pays for doctors' medical malpractice insurance...

Pennsylvania House expands health insurance to low-income adults
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Jun 30, 2009
...The remaining funds for the program would be generated by a 2 percent tax on nonprofit health insurance companies; $362 million from a state fund that helps doctors pay malpractice premiums; and...

Judge's order freezes $110m malpractice funds by state
The Citizen of Laconia, NH - Jun 30, 2009
...Judge Kathleen McGuire's action on Monday will keep the state from taking $110 million in surplus in the New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association fund and using it to help balance the newest state budget...

Programs with tax impact set to expire
Poughkeepsie Journal, NY - Jun 30, 2009
...One of the time-sensitive bills they did not act on would extend the Power for Jobs economic-development program, which provides low-cost power to businesses. Another would extend a freeze on medical malpractice rates. Both laws expire today...

Opinion - Richard A. Epstein: How other countries judge malpractice
Wall Street Journal, New York, NY - Jun 30, 2009
...Litigation in the U.S. has at least four distinctive procedural features that drive up malpractice costs. The first is jury trials...

Opinion - Los Angeles Times: Rehabilitating health care
Boulder Daily Camera, CO - Jun 30, 2009
...But the development of "best practices" could help doctors by providing a shield against malpractice claims, reducing the incidence of wasteful tests and other "defensive" procedures...

Pennsylvania House sends health insurance bill to Senate
The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA (Associated Press) - Jun 29, 2009
...The expansion would be funded by taxing nonprofit health insurers, tapping a fund that helps doctors pay malpractice premiums, reducing the reporting time for abandoned property and getting federal funding help...