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Philadelphia's murder rate a serious concern in state capitol The Evening Bulleting, Philadelphia, PA - June 29, 2007 ...The primary cause for the loss of docs has been blamed on soaring medical malpractice insurance costs in the state and the unwillingness of the General Assembly to pass comprehensive tort reform... Physicians Mutual wins, loses in Supreme Court LegalNewsline.com, IL - June 29, 2007 ...West Virginia Physicians Mutual Insurance Company lost some freedom and gained some at the state's Supreme Court of Appeals... Pa. health-care system in crisis mode The Sentinel, Carlisle, PA - June 28, 2007 ...Staggs also noted the trouble the area has recruiting physicians with today's abundance of malpractice suits. In addition, he said, enrollment in medical school is decreasing... Medical malpractice news
Court rules against drug maker The Charleston Gazette, WV - June 28, 2007 ...The ruling arose out of a 2001 product liability/medical malpractice lawsuit in Marshall County. In 1999... Opinion - Dr. Karen L. Meyer: Governor wrong in attempt to take from Patients Fund Fond du Lac Reporter, WI - June 28, 2007 ...First, I would like to provide you with some background on a fund that was established for physicians to protect patients in case there was a malpractice suit... Medical malpractice news
Report cites a shortage of maternity beds Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - June 27, 2007 ...Both sides agree that rising malpractice insurance costs and shrinking reimbursement rates pose problems... Opinion - Tony Phyrillas: 44 million Americans without health insurance OpinionEditorials.com, VA - June 27, 2007 ...Rendell has been unwilling so far to address other factors that contribute to the uninsured such as malpractice rates, insurance fraud, bureaucratic waste and tort reform... Opinion - Dennis R. Spivack: Come on, Democrats, dare to be different The News Journal, Wilmington, DE - June 27, 2007 ...A nonprofit national malpractice insurance program could be instituted in which physicians' premiums are based on actual claims rather than the performance of the stock market... AMA adopts principles for health courts HealthNewsDigest.com, NY - June 27, 2007 ...The American Medical Association (AMA) yesterday adopted new principles for health courts, special medical courts composed of judges trained in medical standards that could render more accurate decisions on whether or not medical malpractice has actually occurred... Medical malpractice news
Doctors, retailers square off Chicago Tribune, IL - June 26, 2007 ...The AMA's policymaking House of Delegates, meeting in Chicago, said lack of regulation at retail clinics might be fostering liability concerns, health risks and potential conflicts of interest between the clinics' nurse practitioners who order prescriptions and the pharmacies that fill them... Medical malpractice news
Lawsuit reform battle heats up again in Springfield Sauk Valley Newspapers, Sterling, IL (Associated Press) - June 25, 2007 ...The players are the same, but this time trial lawyers are the ones pushing two proposals to let plaintiffs collect more money, rather than critics pushing to limit awards... 'Going bare' in senior care The City Paper, Nashville, TN - June 25, 2007 ...In Tennessee, the cost of liability insurance for nursing home and long-term care providers has increased about 500 percent over the past few years, and has only begun to stabilize in the last 12-24 months, according to Ron Taylor, executive director of the Tennessee Health Care Association... Editorial: Reform health insurance The Buffalo News, NY - June 25, 2007 ...Issues such as electronic recordkeeping, medical malpractice reform and lifestyle choices also need to be addressed in order to produce a healthier country and reduce the costs of care... Mandatory mediation paying off Providence Business News, RI - June 25, 2007 ...A pilot mediation program started in 2005 in Superior Court has led to settlements in almost half the 70-plus medical malpractice cases it has handled so far -- success rate so high that the program is going to be made permanent and expanded statewide... Palm Beach County faces health care crisis as family practices dwindle South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach, FL - June 24, 2007 ...The high cost of malpractice insurance and low reimbursements for care are the one-two punch against doctors. But family doctors have specific challenges... Long legislative session finally ends Yuma Sun, AZ - June 22, 2007 ...A bill to provide more protection from malpractice lawsuits for emergency room doctors died in the House... Medical malpractice news
Rendell health plan on tour The Republican & Herald, Pottsville, PA - June 22, 2007 ...Craig Hunt, an administrator at Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic, said he feels Rendell’s plan doesn’t address two important health care issues -- malpractice reform and end-of-life care -- and doesn’t provide a clear-cut approach to funding its main initiatives... Medical malpractice news
Arbitration may change climate Edwardsville Intelligencer, IL - June 21, 2007 ...The rule requires people claiming injuries and the doctors and other medical practitioners they sue to meet and conduct discussions to try to settle the case... Opinion - Cost of malpractice insurance is driving docs out of business Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, NY - June 21, 2007 ...Over the past four years, physician premiums have risen between 30 percent and 47 percent at a time when physician income at best remained stagnant... Opinion - Dr. Clif Cleaveland: Technology has its limits in medicine Times Free Press, Chattanooga, TN - June 21, 2007 ...Defensive medicine, the fear of malpractice suits, drives many decisions to order technology. Always lurking in the back of the mind of a physician is how a particular case would appear under cross-examination in a courtroom... Medical malpractice news
States' "locality rule" hurts patients Ivanhoe.com, FL - June 20, 2007 ...The states that adhere to some form of the locality rule are: Arizona, Virginia, Washington, Idaho, New York, Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Colorado, Louisiana, Montana, Pennsylvania and South Dakota... Madison County judges looking into mediation for complex civil cases Madison County Record, Edwardsville, IL - June 19, 2007 ...The announcement came a day after Callis said the circuit had adopted a mediation program for medical malpractice lawsuits filed in Madison County. A newly created judicial review panel will determine whether medical malpractice cases should be mediated... Medical malpractice news
New rules adopted for malpractice cases St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO - June 19, 2007 People claiming injuries and the doctors they sue now must meet and at least talk of settling any time a medical malpractice case is filed, according to rules adopted Monday by the Madison County court... Med mal cases to be mediated in Madison County Madison County Record, Edwardsville, IL - June 19, 2007 ...Judges adopted the rules June 18, based on recommendations of the circuit's Medical-Legal Committee... Opinion - James Tayoun, DO: Liability crisis unresolved Bucks County Courier Times, Levittown, PA - June 19, 2007 ...Unless the Pennsylvania legislature enacts sensible and effective tort reforms, access to health care will continue to erode... Electronic health records raise new risks of malpractice liability Law.com, CA (New Jersey Law Journal) - June 19, 2007 ...Although use of EHRs is integrally related to improving patient safety, adopting EHRs may raise new risks of malpractice liability... Medical malpractice news
Discount dentistry, south of the border Washington Post, DC - June 18, 2007 ...Their operating costs are substantially lower than those in the United States, and because the Mexican legal system makes it almost impossible to sue them, they don't have to worry about high malpractice insurance premiums... Opinion - Dr. Alexander Strasser: Red tape, low pay drives out docs Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, NY - June 18, 2007 ...The public has been promised perfection in medical care. The wonders of medical science are hailed and the pitfalls that exist in clinical practice are ignored. Illness and hospitalizations that result in poor outcomes are often exploited by malpractice attorneys who stand ready and eager to sue... Doctor shortage belies top ranking Star Bulletin, Honolulu, HI - June 17, 2007 ...High malpractice premiums and low insurance reimbursements have created a "state of crisis" in Hawaii with physician shortages limiting access to health care, she said... Are Texas' malpractice damage limits healthy? The Dallas Morning News, TX - June 17, 2007 ...Four years ago, Texas limited how much patients could win in a medical malpractice lawsuit. Since then, doctors, patients and lawyers have seen many of the changes predicted by both sides in that bitter debate come to pass... Medical board's invigorated powers sideline the courts The Dallas Morning News, TX - June 17, 2007 ...When the limit on pain-and-suffering damages was put into place in 2003, the state also gave the Texas Medical Board increased policing powers and more lawyers to investigate bad doctors... Florida physician can sue insurer over forced liability settlement American Medical News, IL - June 17, 2007 ...A unique Florida law bars medical liability carriers from including a policy provision giving doctors veto power over an insurer's decision to settle, known as the consent-to-settle clause. But the law requires insurers to make that call in good faith and in the insured physician's best interest... Opinion - N. Alex Winslow: Comment: 'Reform' injurious to patients in Texas Express-News, San Antonio, TX - June 16, 2007 ...David Hendricks' column about the impact that so-called tort "reform" has had on the insurance industry in Texas reads more like industry talking points than real reporting... Tort reform gets rehashed by a revamped Congress Puget Sound Business Journal, Seattle, WA - June 15, 2007 ...None of these bills, however, likely will get anywhere this Congress, as Democrats who are strongly opposed to the bills chair the committees that have jurisdiction over the legislation. In fact, the House Small Business Committee hearing may be the most action that tort reform will see on Capitol Hill... State's largest provider of malpractice insurance lowers premium costs by 4.2% Memphis Business Journal, TN - June 15, 2007 ...Tennessee's largest provider of medical malpractice insurance has lowered rates 4.2% overall for physicians' premium costs, a decrease that has stirred some debate over the need for medical liability reform in Tennessee... Ohio cracking down on doctor's mistakes Dayton Business Journal, OH - June 15, 2007 ...The state's rate of six serious actions per 1,000 physicians placed it fourth, coming in behind Alaska, Kentucky and Wyoming... National group ranks Wisconsin low on doctor's discipline The Business Journal of Milwaukee, WI - June 15, 2007 ...Although Public Citizen looks at whether a state board revokes or restricts a doctor's license because of physician error, its ranking does not take into consideration other actions, such as an official reprimand or ordering a doctor to get remedial education... Medical malpractice news
Bill would preserve subsidies for local semi-rural doctors Mail Tribune, Medford, OR - June 15, 2007 ...Senate Bill 183, which extends the state's insurance subsidy for rural Oregon doctors for another four years, won final legislative approval this week, and a spokesman for Gov. Ted Kulongoski said the governor will sign it... Med mal reforms face Supreme Court challenge West Virginia Record, Charleston, WV - June 15, 2007 ...The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Mason County case that could challenge the constitutionality of a medical malpractice reform law... Case already on court followers' radar screens West Virginia Record, Charleston, WV - June 15, 2007 ...As the state Supreme Court agrees to hear a possible challenge to a medical malpractice reform law, those who supported and opposed it say they plan to watch the case closely... Editorial: Leave it alone West Virginia Record, Charleston, WV - June 15, 2007 ...That was the problem back in 2001 when lawsuits had driven liability insurance rates so high that Wheeling was without neurosurgeons and ambulances were being re-routed to Pittsburgh... Medical malpractice news
State's top judge call for review of medical malpractice screening Portland Press Herald, Maine - June 14, 2007 The way Maine screens medical malpractice claims has come under fire from Chief Justice Leigh Saufley, who called the process costly and cumbersome for both patients and doctors in legal disputes... Medical malpractice news
Republicans unveil health plan Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Jun. 13, 2007 ...The Republican plan also calls for limiting the liability doctors face from malpractice lawsuits by bringing back the Fair Share Act. Vetoed last year by Rendell, the act is designed to make defendants found liable in civil trials pay only the share of the verdict that matches their share of the fault, as established by jurors... Republicans offer health care reforms The Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia, PA - Jun. 13, 2007 ...A reintroduction of medical liability reform is a signature part of the Republican proposal, which they call the "Real Prescription for Pennsylvania."... Pa. GOP eyes health care fix Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA - Jun. 13, 2007 ...and, unlike hospital emergency physicians who can be sued for malpractice, health center employees are protected from liability. Care at the centers thus is much more affordable... Scavello supports Physician Loan Assistance Program PoconoNews.Net, Milford, PA - Jun. 13, 2007 ..."Pennsylvania has attempted to make its medical malpractice insurance climate more temperate for physicians, and now with this bill, loan repayments for new doctors can be made easier as well."... No obstetrics 'crisis,' but problems The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Jun. 13, 2007 ...Since 1997, 13 area hospitals have stopped delivering babies. Hospital and political leaders have labeled the trend a "crisis." They're seeking extra funding and help with malpractice-insurance costs... Opinion - William A. Collins: The risky life of a patient East Texas Review, Longview, TX - Jun. 13, 2007 ...As it turns out, malpractice is one of those rare crises where the states are likely to maintain control always. Thus, 50 battles rage... Medical malpractice news
News from the Pennsylvania General Assembly Centre Daily Times, State College, PA (Associated Press) - Jun. 12, 2007 ...Their plan also calls for reducing medical-malpractice insurance costs for physicians.... Pa. House writes own prescription for health care Lancaster New Era, PA - Jun. 12 2007 ...For example, the GOP task force wants medical liability reform aimed at making malpractice insurance more affordable for doctors... Republicans roll out their own cure for PA's health care woes Central Penn Business Journal, PA - Jun. 12, 2007 ... The plan, dubbed the "Real Prescription for Pennsylvania," focuses on concepts such as consumer-driven health care, loan forgiveness for health-care professionals and medical-malpractice reform... Warning issued on health costs The Republican, Springfield, MA - Jun. 12, 2007 ...He said malpractice lawsuits against doctors and mountains of paperwork are among the factors driving up medical costs, that need to be confronted without sacrificing accountability... Editorial: Burdens on primary care doctors Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, MA - Jun. 12, 2007 ...Like physicians in other fields, they are also are burdened by extraordinarily high malpractice insurance costs... Medical malpractice news
Editorial: Medical school loan forgiveness would help retain more doctors Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Jun. 11, 2007 ...The state's medical-malpractice environment, while said to be greatly improved, appears to have taken its toll and left Pennsylvania with an unattractive image among freshly minted physicians... Opinion - Raymond J. Keating: Does reform matter? Look at Texas Insurance Journal, CA - Jun. 11, 2007 ...It could not get any clearer. Rein in medical malpractice abuses, and the results include more insurers, lower insurance costs, and more doctors... Will there be a doctor in the house? Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Jun. 10, 2007 ...Health care providers in Pennsylvania are required to purchase at least $1 million in malpractice liability coverage. To help defray these costs, Gov. Ed Rendell introduced an abatement program in 2002... Lawmakers seek ways to keep young physicians in Pa. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Jun. 10, 2007 ...The decline in numbers coincides with a graying of the existing workforce and a period in which medical malpractice insurance rates climbed and third-party reimbursement rates for Medicare and Medicaid dropped, the society found... Editorial: The other insurance crisis The Palm Beach Post, FL - Jun. 10, 2007 The Legislature spent a special session this year on property insurance, the cost of which threatens the state's economy. The Legislature spent almost no time on medical malpractice insurance, the cost of which supposedly threatens the state's health-care system... Who's looking out for patients in Texas? Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, TX - Jun. 10, 2007 ...The commitment was that patients would be more aggressively protected in the wake of new legislation that, in effect, made it more difficult for patients to sue doctors for malpractice... Group criticizes state's physician discipline rate The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MI - Jun. 10, 2007 ..."I'm delighted that Mississippi is down at the bottom. Why? Because it means all of our interdictions are working," said Dr. H. Vann Craig, executive director of the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure... Patients, doctors at odds over suits Richmond Times-Dispatch, VA - Jun. 9, 2007 ...Doctors in Virginia have pushed for reforms in medical malpractice laws for several years, arguing that access to patient care is being hindered by rising insurance costs that have forced doctors to leave the state or their practices. Studies, however, show that the increases tend to be cyclical ... Editorial: Give reform efforts a chance ahead of constitutional parley Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Jun. 9, 2007 ...That commission has been called upon to review and make recommendations on a number of complex issues, including the impact of the state's tobacco settlement on economic development, options for addressing medical-malpractice reform and amendments to the divorce code... Premiums for malpractice decline Nashville Business Journal, TN - Jun. 8, 2007 The biggest provider of malpractice insurance for Tennessee doctors announced an average 4.2 percent decrease in premium costs last month, providing rate relief that some say weakens the argument for medical liability reform... Medical malpractice news
Budget committee to weigh cigarette, hospital tax hikes The Milwaukee Channel, WI - Jun. 8, 2007 ...They include higher cigarette prices, a heavily-opposed tax on hospitals and a controversial transfer from a fund meant to compensate victims of malpractice... Survey: State moves up on biz-friendly list The Capital Times, Madison, WI - Jun. 8, 2007 ...as well as another decision that struck down as unconstitutional the state's limits on non-economic damages, such as for pain and suffering, in medical malpractice cases... Good doctor's report for city The Huntsville Times, AL - Jun. 8, 2007 ...The magazine looked at the following factors: the environment for doctors in malpractice suits, insurance premiums, doctor-to-population ratio, proximity to state-of-the-art hospitals, cost of doing business and managed care penetration... State board of medicine ranks low Reno Gazette-Journal, NV - Jun. 8, 2007 ...Compiled by the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group Public Citizen, the report ranks the Silver State 47th for its rate of serious disciplinary actions against doctors in the past three years... State: Hospitals still fighting 2004 amendment St. Petersburg Times, FL (Associated Press) - Jun. 8, 2007 ...The amendment is one of two that were been placed on the ballot through citizen initiatives organized by trial lawyers who represent patients in medical malpractice cases. The other amendment bars doctors with three malpractice judgments against them from practicing... Medical malpractice news
Hospitals ask Supreme Court to delay 'Right to Know' amendment The Gainesville Sun, FL (Associated Press) - Jun. 7, 2007 ...Hospital lawyers Thursday urged the Florida Supreme Court to delay implementation of a state constitutional amendment that gives patients the "right to know" about past mistakes made by doctors and medical facilities... Medical errors may become public The Tampa Tribune, FL - Jun. 7, 2007 ...Two attorneys will argue for broad interpretation of the voter initiative, often called Amendment 7. They represent patients who have sued hospitals in Lake City and Tavares for medical... Lawyer: Malpractice suits based on doctor-patient relationship The Capital Times, Madison, WI - Jun. 7, 2007 ...The determining factor in which doctors get sued for malpractice and which don't is not experience, skill or area of expertise. It is how well the patients feel they were treated by the doctor during their consultations... Medical malpractice news
Pa. legislation would bolster maternity wards that remain Pittsburgh Business Times, PA - Jun. 6, 2007 Pennsylvania state Rep. Kathy Manderino introduced legislation Wednesday addressing the growing number of hospitals that are closing maternity wards because of inadequate reimbursement rates and high medical-malpractice insurance costs... Medical malpractice reform on hold Memphis Commercial Appeal, TN - Jun. 6, 2007 ...With Tennessee's legislative session set to end this week or next week, a bill to overhaul the state's medical malpractice laws appears dead... Analyst: Patients fare poorly in court South Bend Tribune, IN (The Washington Post) - Jun. 6, 2007 ...There is no empirical evidence to support the much-publicized notion that the tort system amounts to a lottery for injured plaintiffs... Opinion - Dan Pero: Shuttering of obstetric units is symptom of a deeper crisis The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Jun. 6, 2007 ...Chalk up another "victory" for personal-injury lawyers and the medical-liability crisis they have visited upon Pennsylvania... Editorial: How many more taxes can you afford? The Janesville Gazette, WI - Jun. 6, 2007 ...The nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau recently raised concerns that Doyle's proposal would plunge the fund into a deficit and questioned the legality of dipping into it. The governor should keep his hands off... Medical malpractice news
House bill aims to keep doctors from leaving Pa. Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, PA - Jun. 5, 2007 ...Another factor that is causing doctors to flee the state is the high cost of medical malpractice insurance, caused, in part, by high damage amounts awarded in malpractice lawsuits against doctors, but House Bill 1093 doesn't address that issue... Malpractice insurance reform could stem loss of Pa. doctors Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, PA - Jun. 5, 2007 ...Proposals to cap lawsuit awards stalled during the 2005-06 legislative session... Employers talk health care at symposium Central Penn Business Journal, Harrisburg, PA - Jun. 5, 2007 ...Two panels of stakeholders, including hospital executives, lawyers and business owners, discussed a variety of health-care issues such as medical-malpractice reform and hospital-acquired infections... Medical malpractice news
Doyle is trying to raid medical liability fund Small Business Times, Milwaukee, WI - Jun. 4, 2007 ...Gov. Doyle has proposed transferring nearly $175 million from the fund to help balance the state budget and pay for new programs. Actuarial experts universally agree such a one-time transfer will lead to massive liability premium increases - the cost of which will be passed on to Wisconsin patients... Two area hospitals bucking the trend The Intelligencer, Doylestown, PA - Jun. 4, 2007 ...Obstetrics is a money loser for most hospitals. Malpractice insurance is expensive and insurance company reimbursements are low... Opinion - Lex Taylor: Tort reform in Miss. a success story despite Bill Minor's report The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MI - Jun. 4, 2007 ...Medical liability cases against Mississippi doctors have dropped nearly 90 percent. After years of increases and medical insurers fleeting the state, the Medical Assurance Company of Mississippi did not raise rates in 2005 and reduced its 2006 and 2007 rates... Insurance firms in Solon, Westlake merge Crain's Cleveland Business, OH - Jun. 4, 2007 ...president George Dadas said the deal was attractive in part because of new services, including medical malpractice work... When things go wrong at a hospital The Providence Journal, RI - Jun. 3, 2007 ...Even in a case like this, in which no medical error was involved, doctors, hospitals and their insurers worry that any empathy expressed will be construed as an admission of wrongdoing and used against them in a lawsuit... Insurance companies, doctors flock to Texas San Antonio Express-News, TX - Jun. 1, 2007 When Texas voters in 2003 approved a state proposition capping lawsuit awards for medical malpractice cases, only four insurance companies even offered malpractice policies to Texas doctors. Now, 30 insurance companies crowd the market, and premiums have fallen like so many San Antonio Spurs playoff opponents... Trial lawyers back hospitals' plea for improved OB rates Philadelphia Business Journal, PA - Jun. 1, 2007 ...DVHC's other proposals for addressing the obstetrics access issue include: pursuing liability reforms, such as continuation of the MCare abatement program that uses state funds to cover the state-mandated liability insurance premiums for obstetricians and other high-risk specialists... Medical malpractice suit settled for $23M, among biggest ever in area Pittsburgh Business Times, PA - Jun. 1, 2007 ...The settlement for Brian and Pamela Jordan totaled $23 million, according to a source familiar with the proceedings, which will be paid by a private insurer and the state medical catastrophe fund... Medical malpractice news
Opinion - Andrew Wheat: Patriots for hire The Texas Observer, Jun. 1, 2007 ...TLR worked closely with TRMPAC to help elect a Republican House majority in 2002. That new majority helped enact TLR’s agenda by capping medical malpractice damages... |
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