Health bill faces Senate heat
Wall Street Journal, NY - Nov 9, 2009
...Republicans described the bill as an unprecedented power grab that would raise -- not lower -- medical costs and further cripple the economy. They lambasted the legislation for creating new taxes and failing to curb frivolous medical-malpractice lawsuits...

What the House bill would mean for various groups
Wall Street Journal, NY - Nov 9, 2009
...The bill's provisions on medical liability are far short of what most doctors want. It creates new incentive payments to states that have alternative laws aimed at cracking down on frivolous malpractice lawsuits...

Texas reforms highlighted in Lawsuit Awareness Week
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Nov 9, 2009
...Gov. Rick Perry said in a statement that the changes helped curb the kind of excessive litigation that drove up the cost of physicians' liability insurance premiums and made it difficult for doctors to continue practicing...

Editorial: Healthcare's hurdles
Los Angeles Times, CA - Nov 9, 2009
...The GOP proposal is devoted mainly to curbing the growth in healthcare spending by reducing state mandates on insurance providers, restricting damages in medical malpractice cases and rewarding states for keeping rates down...

Editorial: Health-care reform, GOP-style
Washington Post, DC - Nov 9, 2009
...Finally, the proposal would change the medical malpractice system -- a good idea, but done in the wrong way...

Medical malpractice reform omitted from House health care bill
PointofLaw.com - Nov 8, 2009
...The lack of medical liability reform in the House health care bill and the political power of trial lawyers were two points argued late Saturday when Republicans moved to recommit the health care bill, H.R. 3962, to committee...

Editorial: Miss. made a plan, will nation follow?
The Natchez Democrat, MS - Oct 8, 2009
...In 2004, the work that began here led to sweeping reforms of the state’s tort laws. To those local physicians who lobbied hard to change the state’s legal reputation, we’re forever grateful...

National reform needed, local doctor says
The Natchez Democrat, MS - Oct 8, 2009
...Though the number of medical malpractice claims has dropped by 91 percent from its peak, and the state’s largest medical liability insurer has dropped its premiums by 42 percent...

Another TARP: Trial Attorney Relief Program
Southeast Texas Record, Beaumont, TX - Nov 7, 2009
...Despite abundant evidence that frivolous medical malpractice suits contribute mightily to the rising cost of health care, the bill touted by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does nothing to deter such suits. In fact, it seeks to insulate them from reform...