Bradley Vasoli http://www.thebulletin.us/ Media – Hospital officials and health care experts from southeast Pennsylvania told the state House Republican Policy Committee yesterday that many maternity wards find it difficult to stay open due to malpractice insurance costs. Since 1995, 36 of the state’s hospital obstetrical units have closed, 14 of them in the southeast. But […]

The Uni-Ter Group http://www.redorbit.com/ Susan Bugg, RN, BSN, has been appointed Director of Risk Management for Risk Retention Groups (RRG) managed by Uni-Ter Underwriting Management Corporation, Sanford Elsass, President and CEO, announced. “Susan Bugg brings to our RRGs 22 years of practice as a nurse along with specialized experience in claims, risk analysis, medical malpractice, […]

by Janice Francis-Smith http://www.journalrecord.com/ OKLAHOMA CITY – Republican lawmakers are still holding out hope for a tort reform measure to make it into law this year, though the tone taken by tort reform advocates in recent weeks betrays an expectation of defeat once again. Previous attempts to pass lawsuit reform this year have resulted in […]

Jim Coyle http://www.thestar.com Forgiveness, a sage once said, is the vestibule of heaven. If so, apology must be the pathway to it. In the nit-picky world of contemporary Ontario politics – where clotheslines, lawn treatments and convenience-store displays have lately dominated attention – Liberal David Orazietti is championing an initiative that’s both inherently humble and […]

David Harlow http://healthblawg.typepad.com/ Marc Rodwin, in his Health Affairs piece on Massachusetts malpractice premiums out this week, says the supposed malpractice crisis just isn’t there. Inflation-adjusted premiums are about where they were 30 years ago; they’ve gone up — and down, in cycles — over the past three decades.  Furthermore, Massachusetts compares well to other […]

By Joseph Nixon http://online.wsj.com/  When Sam Houston was still hanging his hat in Tennessee in the 1830s, it wasn’t uncommon for fellow Tennesseans who were packing up and moving south and west to hang a sign on their cabins that read “GTT” – Gone to Texas. Today obstetricians, surgeons and other doctors might consider reviving […]

By Carol Ann Campbell http://www.nj.com The new president of the Medical Society of New Jersey grew up in a 5,000-year-old Indian city, Mathura, where his father ran a jewelry shop and the family’s roots stretch to the 14th century. Today Rajendra Prasad Gupta, a gastroenterologist, makes his home in Princeton and has a practice in […]

http://chronicle.augusta.com ATLANTA — The Medical Association of Georgia’s political action committee, GAMPAC, is throwing its support to challenger Barry Fleming, a lawyer, against incumbent Paul Broun, a medical doctor, in the Republican primary for Congress from the 10th District. “The bottom line is that we wouldn’t have tort reform in Georgia today without Barry’s leadership,” […]

By Toby Sells http://www.bizjournals.com/ Tennessee doctors didn’t get everything they wanted in the way of medical liability reform this year, but some say they got a step in the right direction. The General Assembly passed a bill in early May that will direct plaintiffs to give doctors a 60-day, pre-lawsuit notification; require plaintiffs to get […]