Beginning to sound a lot like a campaign season
Daily Herald, Arlington Heights, IL - Dec 21, 2009
...The state's legal, medical, business and political circles continue to await an Illinois Supreme Court decision on a 2005 law that limited jury awards on pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases, a ruling that could propel the issue to the forefront of the campaigns...

Editorial: Trial lawyers buy Democrats in Congress
Washington Examiner, DC - Dec 21, 2009
Neither of the Obamacare proposals now before Congress includes a medical malpractice reform provision despite the fact that the public wants one -- and that it would cut annual health care costs by $200 billion...

Malpractice setup haunts Lee County, U.S. health care
The News-Press, Fort Myers, FL - Dec 20, 2009
In the six years since Florida put limits on damages in medical malpractice lawsuits, insurance premiums and lawsuits have dropped. But physicians — including those in Lee County — continue ordering billions of dollars worth of extra tests...

Opinion - Marcus Rayner: Tort reform is the key to a healthier New Jersey
The Times of Trenton, NJ - Dec 20, 2009
...Malpractice insurance costs so much because New Jersey's current civil justice laws are decisively anti-physician. Malpractice awards in New Jersey are not capped, for one...

Tort law brought more doctors, but its effect on patients is unclear
Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, TX - Dec 19, 2009
...Although Texas is being held up as a national example of success in limiting medical malpractice damages — with a 51 percent increase in new doctors and a 27 percent drop in malpractice insurance rates since a law went into effect in 2003 — the impact on consumers has been far less clear...

Opinion - Dr. George Schroeder: America's healthcare system consists of medicolegal diseasecare
Muskogee Phoenix, OK - Dec 19, 2009
There must be medical malpractice tort reform, which in Texas and Mississippi have successfully helped bring down healthcare costs...