House leaders unveil health bill
Wall Street Journal, NY - Oct 30, 2009
...The bill also addresses medical liability, calling for new incentive payments to states that have alternative medical liability laws aimed at cracking down on frivolous malpractice lawsuits...

Health bill would aid Jerseyans
Courier-Post, Cherry Hill, NJ - Oct 30, 2009
...Lance said he wants to amend the bill by adding limits on medical malpractice awards in legal disputes and eliminating the medical device tax, which he said would disproportionately affect a state that serves as the world's "medicine chest."...

Survey: Health care reform is confusing
WBAY-TV, Green Bay, WI - Oct 30, 2009
...Fifty-nine percent favor limiting medical malpractice settlements. Fifty-seven percent like the idea of requiring everyone to carry health insurance...

Malpractice confidentiality clauses could put others at risk
WISN-TV, Milwaukee, WI - Oct 30, 2009
...Confidentiality clauses are the norm when malpractice lawsuits are settled. But some say keeping details of those cases secret puts patients at risk...

American Physicians profit off 12 percent
Lansing State Journal, Lansing, MI - Oct 30, 2009
American Physicians Capital Inc.'s profits fell 12.5 percent in the third quarter. The East Lansing-based medical liability insurer reported on Thursday it earned $9.8 million, or 91 cents per share in the quarter that ended in September...

H.R. 3962 - The House health bill - weighs in at 1,990 pages
National Underwriter Life & Health - Oct 29, 2009
...Health insurers and medical malpractice insurers have been trying to ward efforts to end their access to the McCarran-Ferguson Act insurance antitrust exemption. In H.R. 3962, an exemption repeal provision starts on page 150...

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