Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Jul 3, 3009
...Mr. Arneson said Senate Bill 850 could be balanced by combining additional spending cuts and some one-time revenues, such as the $750 million Rainy Day Fund, a $700 million account to pay for medical malpractice premiums and money from leasing more land for natural gas drilling...
Ruling raises doubts about state budget
New Hampshire Business Review, Manchester, NH - Jul 3, 2009
...The state created the JUA as a “mandatory risk-sharing plan” in 1975, when private insurers failed to offer malpractice coverage. The JUA counts approximately 900 policyholders, about half of them physicians, who represent about 30 percent of the state’s malpractice insurance market...
Opinion - Brad Cook: The good, the bad and the ugly
New Hampshire Business Review, Manchester, NH - Jul 3, 2009
...The budget was balanced using several hundred million dollars of one-time revenue sources which will not be available again. This includes a $110 million taking of medical malpractice insurance funds already being contested in court by those who paid the premiums...
N.Y. doctors challenge liability insurance report
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Jul 2, 2009
...While payouts are important in determining medical liability insurance costs, the report ignored other factors, including rising defense costs and the impact of meritless claims, said Mo Auster, counsel for the Medical Society of the State of New York's government affairs office...
Opinion - Carter Wood: Trial lawyers playing defense on health care reform? Really?
PointofLaw.com, Manhattan Institute, NY - July 2, 2009
...If this were really a priority, wouldn't we be seeing a high level of activity, table pounding and persuasion coming from the trial lawyers? News releases, op-eds, floor speeches? Have you seen anything on the TV about medical liability reform?...
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