side note: According to this article, the new Arizona law that makes it more difficult to sue for medical malpractice has been quite effective. Will it pass constitutional appeals? This has been a problem for States such as Illinois, Missouri and many others. ClinicalAdvisor.com An Arizona medical malpractice reform bill, which was signed into law […]

side note: Here is a state-level attempt at reigning in medical malpractice insurance rate hikes. Could this be the model for the rest of the country? Only time will tell…… Bill would limit rate hikes for medical malpractice insurance TRENTON – The Senate Commerce Committee today approved a bill to limit how much medical-malpractice insurance […]

side note: The letter below details what one lobbyist believes will be the outcome of the healthcare reform debate. He says that healthcare reform will pass, but expects selling it to the American people will take longer than the president expects. A lobbyist close to the battles over federal health care reform predicted a bill […]

side note: In this case, a woman was brought to a hospital passed out from alcohol intoxication. In her medical malpractice lawsuit, she claims that she was left slumped in an awkward position, cutting off blood flow to her legs. Her legs needed to be amputated, and now she is suing for malpractice. UNIONTOWN, Pa.—A […]

side note: Republicans are trying to kill the Affordable Care Act, but at the same time, they are trying to insert strong tort reforms in the legislation. Two senators want to add loser pays language to the bill, where the loser of a malpractice lawsuit would have to pay the legal costs of the other […]

side note: In the debate over language in the Affordable Care Act, Se. Leahy of Vermont wants to include a repeal of medical malpractice insurance companies’ exemption from anti-trust laws. (AP) — MONTPELIER, Vt. – Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy wants to amend the Senate’s health care reform bill to make health and medical malpractice insurers […]

side note: This seems to be how tort reform is unfolding in almost every state with tort reforms laws that cap non-economic damage on the books—court overturns legislation; legislators re-legislate. ATLANTA — A top GOP legislator vowed that lawmakers would quickly bolster Georgia’s new tort reform laws if any pieces are struck down by the […]

side note: New York’s medical malpractice insurance crisis seems to have no solution on the horizon, yet many, many people are offering their advice. Newswise — Lee Goldman, M.D., executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences and dean of the faculties of medicine and health sciences at Columbia University testified today on medical malpractice […]

side note: Some in the California Legislature are arguing that language in the proposed Affordable Care Act would encourage the state to overturn its MICRA non-economic damage cap. One of the many contentious issues in the national health care debate is something that began 34 years ago in California when Jerry Brown, in the first […]