What's in the Senate budget?
Union Leader, Manchester, NH - Jun 4, 2009
...Also sweeps out $4.5 million from LCHIP fees and $110 million from a medical malpractice insurance fund. Increases the tobacco tax by 45 cents on July 1, the fourth increase in five years...

Editorial: Patients deserve to know identitities of hospitals where gross medical errors have occurred
The Express-Times, Easton, PA - Jun 3, 2009
...There's a movement afoot in the New Jersey Legislature to change that. Under a bill approved by both houses but in need of more legal tweaking in the Senate, hospitals where serious medical errors occur would be subject to public disclosure on a state Web site...

Ruling may clear way for malpractice settlement
Salt Lake Tribune, UT - Jun 3, 2009
...denies the allegation and who refuses to grant permission to his insurer to settle the claim out of court. However, a bankruptcy filing by Baird and the ruling by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver could bring a resolution to the litigation. The court said the "right to settle" is an asset and the trustee in the bankruptcy case has the option of "selling" that right...