The Senate gave initial backing to a bill that would increase the amount juries can award in some medical malpractice suits, a move Republicans said could make doctors stop practicing and make health care more expensive. Democrats said the bill, …
Former Dallas Cowboy Ron Springs, who has been in a coma since the fall following surgery to remove a cyst, is one of 11 plaintiffs challenging Texas’ medical malpractice cap in a lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit, filed in the …
The Texas Medical Association reported it has joined a legal action aimed a protecting tort reforms passed by the Texas Legislature passed in 2003. TMA said it sued to resolve several constitutional challenges to the centerpiece of the 2003 reforms: …
Ann Callis knows Madison County’s court system has taken mighty public knocks, from President Bush branding it an example of medical malpractice litigation run amok to a special-interest group calling the venue a “judicial hellhole.” As the county’s chief judge, …
Atlantic County, N.J. has earned a dubious ranking: It’s one of six “judicial hellholes” nationwide, according to one tort reform group. “Personal injury lawyers seem to have gained a monopoly in Atlantic County,” declares the American Tort Reform Association in …
The 2007 update on U.S. Tort Cost Trends from the Tillinghast insurance consulting practice of Towers Perrin said U.S. tort costs totaled $247 billion in 2006, which is $57 less per person than in 2005 at approximately $825 per person. …
The Texas Legislature enacted tort reform measures in 2003 that among other things placed a $250,000 cap on non-economic damage awards against individual health care practitioners, a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages against single health care institutions and a $500,000 …
A clear indication that Michigan’s 1993 tort reforms are working is that the state’s largest physician medical malpractice insurer is cutting its premiums by 12 to 25 percent for Wayne County physicians, the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) announced yesterday …
City municipalities across North America are often wary of building skateboard parks for fear of liability. However, as Attorney David Amell states in his doctrine, “Assumption of Risk,” starting in the early 1990s, courts throughout the country established common law …
Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer plans to leave a state premium subsidy program and return some of the money it has received, saying it no longer needs the subsidy to stabilize premiums for doctors because the cost of claims is …