Florida lawsuit takes swing at 3-strikes liability rule
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Oct 5, 2009
...Florida voters borrowed the concept when they passed a constitutional amendment allowing doctors' licenses to be revoked if they had three medical liability judgments against them. The measure is believed to be the only one of its kind in the country...

Opinion - Tom Eblen: Some key points in the health care debate
Lexington Herald-Leader, KY - Oct 5, 2009
...Republicans see tort reform as a panacea; Democrats dismiss it as insignificant. But the fact is many doctors feel compelled to order expensive tests and treatments of questionable value...

Democrats push GOP on health plan
Daily World, Opelousas, LA (Associated Press) - Oct 4, 2009
...Republicans will offer numerous amendments, including efforts to limit medical malpractice suits, when a health-care bill reaches the Senate floor this month, he said...

Doctors' malpractice insurance rates drop with fewer negligence claims
Columbia Tribune, Columbia, MO - Oct 4, 2009
The state Department of Insurance recently issued a report indicating medical malpractice insurance companies are making money in Missouri...

Opinion - Donald Palmisano and others: What we would have told Obama
Wall Street Journal, New York, NY - Oct 4, 2009
...Yet these lawsuits, even when dismissed or closed without payment, cost doctors time and money, and encourage defensive medicine. This adds billions to the cost of medical care. It also increases malpractice insurance premiums, the costs of which get passed on to patients...

Opinion - Dr. Ogelsby Young: Defensive medicine takes a financial toll
Concord Monitor, Concord, NH - Oct 4, 2009
...those against medical-legal tort reform argue that it amounts to just over 1 percent of total U.S. health care spending. What they fail to recognize are the hidden costs of our medical-legal practice system - the indirect costs of defensive medicine...

Opinion - Tom Vesper: Patients have the right to hold doctors accountable
The Press of Atlantic City, NJ - Oct 4, 2009
...Some believe granting special favors and sheltering insurance companies from paying for medical errors will "reduce errors" and cause doctors and nurses to report each other. That is not personal or professional responsibility...

Opinion - Ruqaiijah Yearby: Reducing errors key to reform
Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY - Oct 3, 2009
...tort reform will not cut costs until medical errors are addressed, which will substantially reduce medical malpractice suits...