Lynch's N.H. budget plan contested
The Dartmouth, Hanover, NH - Aug 4, 2009
...Part of the budget’s revenue would come from the surplus of the Joint Underwriting Association, a state-funded organization that provides malpractice insurance to state doctors. The JUA filed a lawsuit against the state to keep its funds, and the Belknap County Superior Court ruled against the state on Wednesday...

The role of telehealth in medical tourism
Medical Tourism Magazine, West Palm Beach, FL - Aug 4, 2009
...Since telehealth is relatively new, policies regarding inter-country telehealth practice are not well developed and the legal environment must be assessed on a country-by country basis. Many malpractice insurance providers will extend their coverage to care provided via telehealth, sometimes with a telehealth rider...

Albany takes a look at medical malpractice
Crain's New York Business, New York, NY - Aug 3, 2009
As a one-year New York state moratorium on medical malpractice insurance rate hikes enters its second month, reformers are hoping the state Legislature will come up with ways to lower such costs permanently...

Opinion - Brad Stephan: Midlands Voices: Main ingredients for health reform
The Omaha World-Herald, NE - Aug 3, 2009
...To solve the “malpractice crisis,” physicians could be held harmless from civil liability when they correctly perform the appropriate guidelines, even in the case of an untoward outcome...

Opinion - Tom Baker, Professor of Law - "Source Sheet"
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA - Aug 3, 2009
...The answer for doctors worried about their premiums is shifting the responsibility for buying malpractice insurance to hospitals and other large medical institutions. Evidence-based liability reform would give these institutions the incentive they need to cut back on the most wasteful aspect of American health care: preventable medical injuries.”...