South Dakota changes medical malpractice claims reporting requirements
Claims Journal, CA - Aug 5, 2009
...The law now requires each medical malpractice insurer to file reports of all claims made against any of its insureds not less than semiannually...

Retired state workers suing over insurance
Nashua Telegraph, Hudson, NH - Aug 5, 2009
...Doctors and health-care providers convinced a superior court judge last week to rule illegal the state's taking of $110 million from the surplus of a quasi-public group that underwrites medical malpractice and liability insurance...

Opinion - Charles Arlinghaus: A $110 million budget hole is no cause for panic
Union Leader, Manchester, NH - Aug 5, 2009
..As predicted, the state was prevented from seizing medical malpractice money that doesn't belong to it. The result is that $110 million of revenue used to balance the budget that just ended and the one going forward is no longer available. The state is appealing, but no one in Concord realistically thinks the state has any hope in this case...

Editorial: Raiding nonprofits: State needs to clarify
Union Leader, Manchester, NH - Aug 5, 2009
...legal precedent is legal precedent. If the court validates the argument that the organization's nonprofit status was one justifiable reason for the state to take its cash, that would give legislators cover for expanding such raids in the future...

Opinion - Paul Greenberg: The villains of health care
Hartford Courant, Hartford CT - Aug 4, 2009
...Another question: 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?...

Opinion - Rohn Robbins: What is a 'tort' and how do we reform one?
Vail Daily, Vail, CO - Aug 4, 2009
...Despite the questionable claim — tort litigation, in fact, amounts to less than one-half of 1 percent of health care spending — and despite the questionable origins of the tort reform movement — begun as an internal project of the Phillip Morris tobacco company and quickly joined in by others in the tobacco and asbestos industries — one should at least understand the term...