Long before the legislative session started, a full-page ad accosted readers with this headline: “Medical corporations & insurance companies blame patients harmed by medical malpractice for the ...
Florida’s healthcare providers and their insurers are on the verge of a significant adjustment to the state’s medical malpractice landscape. For over three decades, a controversial provision within ...
A wave of medical malpractice reform is reshaping legislation across the country, with four states recently updating their laws, Best Lawyers reported May 19. According to the report, these reforms ...
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce’s health subcommittee have scheduled a Wednesday hearing to explore options for reforming the nation’s medical liability laws. Medical malpractice reform ...
Short of that, any federal action should encourage, or at least be consistent with, state medical-malpractice reform. Moreover, this offer is particularly ironic -- rather like putting the fox in ...
Medical malpractice reform has been supported by many experts who argue it lowers healthcare costs by reducing the amount of defensive medicine practiced by physicians, but according to a recent RAND ...
I used to have a greeting card that said, “Some days I don’t know whether to change the world or enjoy the world. It makes it hard to plan the day.” If we do one, we can do the other. By changing the ...
New Mexico’s lawyer-centered medical malpractice system, with no statutory caps on attorney’s fees or punitive damages and the lowest standard in the country for awarding punitive damages, is out of ...