Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA - Aug 10, 2009
...P.R.: Do malpractice insurance premiums continue to affect your ability to recruit doctors to the area? S.C.: Yes. I don't think there's been a significant change, although one of the things we've seen is a trend towards hospitals and health systems employing doctors...
Health reform bill awaiting House return retools public plan to encourage doctor participation
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Aug 10, 2009
...While the final Energy and Commerce version does not include the damage caps sought by physicians, it does include new language providing financial incentives to states to implement alternative liability structures, such as early-offer and certificate-of-merit programs...
Wis. high court maintains limits on awards to third parties
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Aug 10, 2009
...Wisconsin physicians support a recent state Supreme Court decision they say will help keep medical liability premiums affordable and allow them to provide care to patients...
Madison loses judicial 'hell hole' title but still needs work on asbestos filings, group says
The Madison/St. Clair Record, Edwardsville, IL - Aug 10, 2009
...For example, medical malpractice suits, according to the presentation, dropped from a decade high 61 in 2001 to 17 filed up to June 30 of this year...
Editorial: Health care reform can pass if Obama accepts reality
The Examiner, Washington, DC - Aug 10, 2009
...and caps on medical malpractice suits would put an end to “defensive medicine” whereby doctors order unnecessary tests and procedures to protect themselves against predatory trial lawyers....
Opinion - Archie C. Swindell, PhD: 'Wedge' issue proves divisive
The Day, New London, CT - Aug 10, 2009
...Why does the Democratic plan not propose controlling this problem? Other countries successfully use neutral arbitration panels rather than courts of law to adjudicate malpractice. Hundred-million-dollar jackpots do not occur, yet malpractice is dealt with - fairly...
Opinion - Glen Meakem: A path to success
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Aug 9, 2009
..Third, the cost of government-provided medical care should be brought under control. Most importantly, Obama should do the truly hard thing and cap punitive damage awards from medical malpractice lawsuits...
Opinion - Richard Meehan: Damage cap only would protect negligent doctors
Norwich Bulletin, Norwich, CT - Aug 9, 2009
...Doctors argue high malpractice insurance is directly related to excessive jury verdicts and legal costs. Part of their sleight of hand is mixing the question of caps on damages with the prevention of frivolous lawsuits. If a claim is truly frivolous, there is no excessive award...
AMA pushes freedom for physicians
The Denver Post, CO - Aug 8, 2009
...Included in the national reform proposal is a new requirement that patients would have to prove the merit of their case before filing a lawsuit against a doctor. Another idea is to first allow a doctor to fix the problem before a malpractice lawsuit is filed...
Editorial: Trial lawyers v. America
The Madison/St. Clair Record, Edwardsville, IL - Aug 8, 2009
...the American Association for Justice has no problem supporting the nationalization of one-seventh of the economy, the biggest government takeover of private enterprise in the history of our country. But any effort -- however feeble -- to attack the problem of lawsuit abuse and thereby limit the earning potential of big bucks attorneys, that's verboten...
Opinion - Stewart Eisenberg: Malpractice payments have fallen dramatically
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Aug 8, 2009
...Insurance companies and health-care special interests who have been reaping huge profits would like you to believe that we need tort reform. What we need is affordable health care for Americans and a plan to reduce preventable medical errors...
Opinion - Paul Greenburg: They are the villains of health care
Sun Journal, New Bern, NC - Aug 7, 2009
...Will this country’s great big new health-care system get all those lawyers off our doctor’s back, and just let the country’s physicians practice medicine? Instead of having to practice it defensively? Is there anything in this developing thousand-page mass of rules and regs that will lower the medical malpractice premiums that keep driving up the cost of health-care?...
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