Los Angeles Times, CA - Oct 1, 2009
...It's fair to say that some reform is needed in our tort system. The trick is to make sure that the benefits of any changes go to the right people -- the patients. That hasn't been the result of the preferred remedy for malpractice lawsuits, which is to hit trial lawyers in the pocketbook...
Opinion - Mark L. Thomsen: Malpractice 'reform' won't fix health care or save money
The Cap Times, Madison, WI - Oct 1, 2009
...Amazingly, insurance special interest groups with their call for more "tort reform," want to deprive Americans who just bailed them out of constitutionally protected access to our judicial system...
Opinion - Rep. Lamar Smith: Trial bar v. tort reform
Politico, Arlington, VA - Oct 1, 2009
...But it is the unlimited damages for “pain and suffering” that allow trial lawyers to abuse the system. According to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health, 40 percent of medical malpractice suits filed in the U.S. are “without merit.” ...
State budget would use medical liability funds
The Philadelphia Bulletin, PA - Sep 30, 2009
...But while some doctors support Mcare, other medical professionals and experts say the program merely passes on the costs of frivolous lawsuits from doctors to the entire taxpaying public and that such costs cannot disappear without serious tort reforms...
Opinion - Lily Robertson: Health care reform: Fire the lawyers!
Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, NH - Sep 30, 2009
...Class action lawsuits shouldn't have a thing in the world to do with health care or medical malpractice insurance. Malpractice should be an entity in and of itself...
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