Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce calls Dems' health care reform bad business
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Sep 9, 2009
..The Democrats' plan would mean job-killing mandates for employers and add to the federal government's rising deficit, said Tom Huntzinger, chairman of the chamber's Health Care Legislative Committee. It also fails to address malpractice reform and would probably put private insurers out of business, he said...

Bucking trend, Grand View to unveil postpartum unit
Philadelphia Business Journal, PA - Sep 9, 2009
...Sixteen hospitals in the region have stopped delivering babies since 1997, blaming the combination of escalating malpractice insurance costs and inadequate reimbursement from public and private insurers...

State says medical malpractice cases down in Missouri
KWMU-FM, St. Louis, MO - Sep 9, 2009
...Malpractice claims have dropped since then-Gov. Matt Blunt and the Republican-led Legislature enacted a 2005 law restricting injury lawsuits. The report shows Missouri's malpractice insurers made a profit for the fifth straight year in 2008...

Editorial: Tort reform: Turning back the clock?
The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS - Sep 9, 2009
...The Supreme Court should reconsider the Price ruling. Tort reforms were too hard to come by to fritter them away by judicial fiat...

Editorial: Obama won't take on trial lawyers in speech
San Francisco Examiner, CA - Sep 9, 2009
...A major factor in rising health care costs is the ever-present threat to doctors and other health care professionals of being sued by trial lawyers looking for big contingency settlements and the fat fees that come with them. As a result, medical malpractice insurance premiums have zoomed into the stratosphere...

Editorial: Big government and health care
The Denver Post, CO - Sep 9, 2009
...The system is badly in need of reform, but the changes must increase transparency so that we know what we're buying, allow competition across state lines, lower the cost of medical malpractice and eliminate the need for defensive medicine. The last thing we need is another intrusion by big government...

Editorial: Add clarity and facts to health care debate
News-Record, Greensboro, NC - Sep 9, 2009
...Bipartisan backing also exists for addressing malpractice cost and coverage, underwriting wellness and preventive care programs and closing the prescription drug doughnut hole for Medicare recipients...

Opinion - Dr. Mark Siegel: 5 pills for Obama to swallow: A medical doctor gives his Rx for health care reform
New York Daily News, NY - Sep 9, 2009
...Of course trial lawyers are against it, but doctors - especially in certain specialties - simply cannot afford rising medical malpractice insurance premiums. The rest of us can't afford the culture of fear that shrouds practice these days...

Opinion - Richard Binko: Patient safety needs attention
Times Union, Albany, NY - Sep 9, 2009
...A strong civil justice system protects patients from malpractice and encourages doctors and other providers to do everything they can to avoid preventable errors...

Trial lawyers spend big money taking to the airwaves
Southeast Texas Record, Beaumont, TX - Sep 8, 2009
...Advertisements seeking potential plaintiffs for medical malpractice lawsuits are flooding the nation's airwaves, a legal watchdog group said Tuesday...