Washington’s debate over healthcare reform came to an official close on March 25, when the U.S. House of Representatives voted 220-207 to pass legislation that made budgetary “fixes” to the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, the 2,409-page piece of healthcare reform legislation signed into law earlier that same week. This final legislation, debated under […]

side note: On the surface, this looks like a harsh ruling, but it does affirm the bulletproof nature of Texas’ tort reforms. Many states would like to see their tort reforms stand up to this kind of scrutiny. Patients in Texas must file malpractice claims within 10 years of when an alleged negligence occurred and […]

President Barack Obama has decided to take 4 Republican ideas and move forward to try and find some common ground and get something done with the proposed health care bill. The four ideas are: 1. Going after fraud by using undercover patients. 2. Putting more money back into the pockets of physicians that take medicare […]

We here at Cunningham Group were extremely disappointed that trial lawyers got their way in Illinois and were able to strike down the 2005 Tort Reform legislation put into place to help with the absurd insurance rates physicians have to pay for their professional medical liability. A new study conducted by the consulting firm Millman […]

The Illinois Supreme Court recently ruled that limitations on non-economic damages in med-mal lawsuits was unconstitutional. This has set in motion a huge PR campaign by all sides involved to cement their stance on the issue. The Illinois Department of Insurance< just made theirs known. Their latest news release shows that since 2005, there has […]

side note: Now that tort reform has become the oft-parroted republican talking point, we could be looking at an opportunity at the state level. So what if there is no federal tort reform? With the groundswell of conservative and independent voters seemingly convinced that medical malpractice lawsuit reform is the answer to skyrocketing healthcare costs, […]

Professional Medical Liability Insurance reform has hit a wall in Washington because of large lobbyist groups who do not want to see the rules changed. We’ve seen for sometime now that whether the reform is necessary or not doesn’t really matter. What we need to do is look at who makes up both sides of […]

The more I read about this recent decision, the more I realize how much of an effect it will have on physicians practicing in the state of Illinois and the cost they pay for their medical liability insurance. We know that the 4-2 decision on February 4 ruled that the tort reform law of 2005 […]

side note: We pride ourselves on being advocates for Physicians and were displeased to see the personal trial lawyers of Illinois get handed a victory by the state’s Supreme Court. This will probably lead to more frivolous lawsuits against good physicians. The tort reform bill signed into law in 2005 had kept rates from rising […]