Fox News - Feb 22, 2010
...It is like Republicans saying unless medical malpractice is part of this, we're not go that talk. If both sides go in with preconditions, then that's not what the American people want here...
Doctors: 21 percent of medicine defensive
United Press International - Feb 22, 2010
Physicians who say they practice defensive medicine in the last 12 months characterized 21 percent of their practice as defensive, a U.S. study indicated...
N.H. high court halts state raid on liability fund
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Feb 22, 2010
...Experts said the ruling could send a message to other states, such as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where physicians are engaged in similar legal battles over state authorities' grabs at liability pools...
News in brief: N.C. high court narrows liability rule
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Feb 22, 2010
The North Carolina Supreme Court left intact an appeals court ruling that state physicians worry could promote uncertain liability standards and expose them to greater risk...
Antitrust shield bill cuts malpractice insurers
Business Insurance, New York, NY - Feb 22, 2010
A bill has been introduced to strip health insurers of the limited antitrust exemption granted to them by the McCarran-Ferguson Act, but unlike a previous version, this measure would not impose the change on medical malpractice insurers...
States look beyond Washington on health
Wall Street Journal, New York, NY - Feb 22, 2010
...Colorado, meanwhile, has pushed for advances in health information technology and for limits on damages awarded in medical malpractice suits...
Opinion - Dr. Jerome Hines: Medical malpractice reforms are needed
Daily Herald, Arlington Heights, IL - Feb 22, 2010
...This is not the time to saddle health care providers with rising medical malpractice premiums. Illinois law allowed physicians to treat their patients with the right care at the right time, without the risk of having to spend time and money fighting baseless lawsuits...
Utah Legislature: Malpractice awards could get capped
Deseret News, Salt Lake City, UT - Feb 21, 2010
A bill capping malpractice lawsuit awards — a step deemed vital to bringing health care costs under control but a proposal that several lawmakers thought they would never see ?— was approved by a Senate committee Friday...
Opinion - Ralph E. Stone: Time to pass the Health Insurance Industry Enforcement Act of 2009
Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel, MD - Feb 21, 2010
...Repeal of the Act would ensure that health insurance issuers and medical malpractice insurance issuers cannot engage in price fixing, bid rigging, monopoly practices, or market allocations to the detriment of competition and consumers...
Opinion - Don Nelson: It's insurance that needs to be reformed
Banner-Herald, Athens, GA - Feb 21, 2010
...Doctors and legislators have been convinced that malpractice lawsuits represent the big boogeyman responsible for skyrocketing health care costs. Yet, in states where tort reform has been passed, have insurance premiums gone down? For doctors in some states, yes, but for consumers, health care insurance premiums have not...
Opinion - Dan Foster: Health reform 'truths' debunked
The Charleston Gazette, WV - Feb 21, 2010
...Indeed, there are other elements that would be helpful, such as medical liability reform, but as shown by the success of Massachusetts' efforts, as opposed to poor results from other states' piecemeal attempts over the years, the only way to adequately cover the uninsured, control costs and maintain or improve quality is through comprehensive reform...
State's top court is siding with malpractice claims
Detroit Free Press, MI (Associated Press) - Feb 20, 2010
Twice this week, a divided Michigan Supreme Court took action favoring people with medical malpractice claims...
Opinion - Stephen Berman: The urgency of health care reform
The Denver Post, CO - Feb 20, 2010
...Ultimately people's ability to afford to purchase insurance, will depend on our ability to slow the growth in health care expenditures over time. Part of the excessive growth in costs is related to the introduction of new technologies and the impact of medical malpractice on clinical decisions...
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