Pols focus on lawyer health
New York Post, NY - Oct 19, 2009
...There's a big reason why Democratic lawmakers in both Washington and Albany dodge malpractice issues like the plague -- they don't want to offend the deep-pocketed trial lawyers who fund their campaigns, medical-industry sources say...

A political game of 'win the docs'
The Washington Independent, DC - Oct 19, 2009
...GOP leaders, meanwhile, want to amend the bill by attaching offsets as well as provisions addressing medical malpractice reform...

CBO: Malpractice reform would save $11B
Business First of Buffalo, NY - Oct 19, 2009
The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that medical liability reforms, such as capping awards for noneconomic damages, would reduce total national health care spending by 0.5 percent...

Scaling back justice?
CBS News - Oct 18, 2009
...Today, says the medical profession, fear of lawsuits has pushed medical malpractice insurance through the roof, and forced doctors to practice what's called "defensive medicine," meaning more tests and higher costs. Howard wants malpractice cases decided not by a jury of laymen and women, but by special courts...

For state, a $110 million question
Concord Monitor, NH - Oct 18, 2009
...Losing the money, which Gov. John Lynch and legislative leaders want to seize from a state-established medical malpractice fund, would create a big hole in the state's budget as revenues continue to slump...

Editorial:Medical jeopardy
Baltimore Sun, MD - Oct 18, 2009
...if lawmakers can't stand behind existing limits on malpractice insurance costs, the public will be left footing much bigger medical bills - assuming they can find a doctor still in business to treat them.

Medical malpractice debate draws crowd to Mt. Gretna
Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, PA - Oct 17, 2009
Although the issue of limiting jury awards for pain and suffering in medical-malpractice lawsuits is not currently a hot-button legislative topic, close to 100 people turned out Saturday in Mt. Gretna for a Citizens' Caucus-sponsored debate about it...

Editorial: Texans know tort reform works
Southeast Texas Record, Beaumont, TX - Oct 17, 2009
...The medical malpractice tort reform that Congressional leadership is wrongly excluding from their ill-advised healthcare overhaul has already been tested. Congressional leaders should embrace the effectiveness of tort reform. It's been tried and it works...