Newsday Inc. http://www.newsday.com Couldn’t see your doctor today? Your favorite physician may have been busy seeking treatment for a vexing problem of his or her own. Exasperated by the soaring cost of medical malpractice insurance, a large contingent of doctors was to converge on Albany today in search of relief. The condition needs attention. Stat. […]

Andrew Villegas http://www.greeleytrib.com A bill that would increase how much patients who sue Colorado doctors for medical malpractice could receive for pain and suffering passed the state Senate on Monday morning. The bill would allow patients to sue doctors for up to $500,000 for pain and suffering. It passed despite calls from doctors and insurers […]

Lee Coleman http://www.goerie.com A reasonable limit on medical malpractice lawsuits would go a long way to eliminate the rapid rise in health-care costs and related health-insurance costs. Pennsylvania is seeing many of its doctors leave the state because we have no limits on medical malpractice lawsuits, making malpractice insurance skyrocket. The only other alternative is […]

By Jerry Gleeson http://www.lohud.com About 100 Westchester County doctors are expected to make the rounds of the state Legislature today, lobbying against threatened increases in malpractice insurance that they say will drive physicians out of New York. Two buses were to leave the parking lot of the Medical Society of the County of Westchester in […]

By Tim Hoover http://www.denverpost.com Injured patients would be able to sue doctors for more money under a bill that won initial Senate approval Thursday and which its sponsor called “negotiation by legislative gunpoint.” Senate president Peter Groff, D-Denver, said his bill is a reasonable measure that restores balance to Colorado’s medical malpractice laws. Under current […]

By Mike Bandy http://www.keizertimes.com The Oregon Legislature should have tackled the issue of tort cap liability during its recently concluded special session. The state tort cap should have been — along with the situation at Oregon State Hospital — a “don’t go home without it” issue. Unfortunately, it’s easy to think of the tort cap […]

By Leland Kim http://www.khnl.com HAWAII STATE CAPITOL (KHNL) — Judiciary Committee Chair Tommy Waters (D-Lanikai, Waimanalo, Island of Kaula) held a controversial medical liability or tort reform bill in his hands Thursday. “It’s not doctors versus lawyers,” he said. “I know the proponents of the bill want to frame it that way. For me, it’s […]

By Jaclyn Youhana http://www.daily-journal.com Andrea Bennett’s regular doctor is not Terrill Applewhite. But when she goes to the hospital, that’s who she sees. Applewhite is a hospitalist, a doctor who takes over for the primary physician once a patient enters the hospital. That means when Bennett, 21, of Kankakee, needed a physical before her brain […]

By DENNIS CARDOZA and JIM COSTA http://www.modbee.com The San Joaquin Valley is facing a health care crisis, suffering from a physician shortage and a lack of adequate health care resources. Recent reports tell us the problem is worse than initially thought and likely to worsen. The best way to address this health care emergency is […]