Doctors split over legislation
Quad-City Times, Davenport, IA - Nov 12, 2009
...A surgeon thinks competition should be increased among private insurers and steps should be taken to decrease the cost of medical malpractice insurance...

Six progressive complaints about House health bill deserve attention
The Capital Times, Madison, WI - Nov 12, 2009
...It does not address interstate portability, as Medicare does. It does not address real medical malpractice insurance reform...

Health insurers' antitrust exemption becoming a focus of reform debate
The Denver Post, CO - Nov 12, 2009
...Medical malpractice insurers, which would lose their exemption under the bill, sometimes share financial information much like auto and home insurers, reporting "historical loss data" specific to particular cities to a centralized service bureau...

Trial lawyers discount effects of medical malpractice litigation
LegalNewsline.com, Chicago, IL - Nov 12, 2009
...The American Association for Justice, which represents plaintiffs' attorneys, has released a series of Internet videos that seeks to justify malpractice lawsuits against doctors, which critics say is responsible partly for the nation's skyrocketing health care costs...

Trial lawyers fight back on medical malpractice
CBS News - Nov 12, 2009
...According to Smith, the group has only bought Washington-area online ads thus far, "though a source close to the group says they're ready to go on air if fluid talks turn toward tort reform."

Editorial: ...And a buried tort bomb
Wall Street Journal, New York, NY - Nov 12, 2009
...Read on, however, and you come to this nugget: The state only qualifies if its new law "does not limit attorneys' fees or impose caps on damages." ...

Editorial: Someone call a doctor
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Nov 12, 2009
...The Congressional Budget Office has said curbing high lawsuit awards and the defensive medicine that doctors practice to avoid them could save $54 billion over 10 years. Senate Democrats mustn't ignore this potential savings, even if it means angering their trial lawyer overlords...