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Organized Attack On People’s Rights: The American Tort Reform Association

December 30, 2013

There are well-financed organizations that were created and exist to champion efforts at limiting or eliminating the rights of victims of wrongful conduct by others to receive fair and just compensation for the injuries and harms they suffered. One of those organizations is the American Tort Refo[...]

This Is Our 1,000th Consecutive Daily Blog

November 28, 2013

Today, we proudly celebrate our 1,000th consecutive daily blog — we began daily blogging on March 5, 2011. Along the way, we have attempted to provide information that educates, illustrates, and explains the varied issues involving medical malpractice and health care in the United States. [...]

How Does the Affordable Care Act Impact Medical Malpractice Claims?

November 8, 2013

How does the Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as “Obamacare”) affect medical malpractice claims in the United States? The short answer is: not much (at east directly). Fortunately for the victims of medical malpractice in the United States, efforts at federal (nationwide) medi[...]

Study Finds That Defensive Medicine Does Not Affect Health Care Costs

October 31, 2013

One of the most noisy cries for medical malpractice tort reform in the United States is that medical providers engage in so-called defensive medicine in states where medical malpractice tort reform has not been enacted because they fear that if they do not practice defensive medicine, they will be [...]

New Hampshire Effort To Modify Unfair Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

October 30, 2013

The New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee recently voted 9 to 7 to support changing New Hampshire’s “early offer” law in medical malpractice claims that health care lobbyists pushed through the New Hampshire Legislature in 2012. Despite the New Hampshire Governor’s veto[...]

Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates Continue To Decline As Insurance Companies’ Profits Remain Strong

October 23, 2013

In a recently released survey of more than 35 medical malpractice insurance companies that represent about 75% of the medical malpractice insurance market for physicians in the United States, the results showed that medical malpractice insurance companies continue to enjoy huge profits, with premium[...]

New Oregon Medical Malpractice Mediation Law May Hurt The Public

October 12, 2013

An Oregon medical malpractice reform initiative signed into law during March 2013 by the Governor of Oregon might end up harming the public throughout the United States by permitting bad doctors to hide their past medical mistakes. SB 483 allows negligent doctors and their injured patients�[...]

Harming Victims Of Medical Negligence

October 11, 2013

No one wants or expects to become the victim of medical malpractice. No one wants to live the rest of their life with unrelenting pain, devastating disabilities, and the lack of enjoyment of life solely because a medical provider made a mistake, caused an error, was careless, was inattentive, beca[...]

Federal Judge Strikes Down Part Of Florida’s New Medical Malpractice Law

September 30, 2013

On September 25, 2013, a federal judge in Florida struck down a part of Florida’s recently enacted changes to its medical malpractice law because it was in conflict with federal law. At issue was Florida Statutes § 766.1065, which took effect on July 1, 2013, that added to the long-stan[...]

5 Ways Medical Malpractice Victims Are Disadvantaged

September 19, 2013

With the constant drone of physicians who mournfully cry that ungrateful patients are filing “frivolous” medical malpractice claims against them which force them to practice costly defensive medicine (which some would argue to be pro-active, patient-oriented medicine), force the[...]

Oklahoma Legislature Set To Reinstate Medical Malpractice Reforms During Special Session

September 8, 2013

On June 4, 2013, the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma held that the Oklahoma statutory requirement that an affidavit of merit be filed in actions for professional negligence (medical malpractice) is a “special law” that regulates the practice of law that violates the Oklahoma Constitutio[...]

Study: Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms Do Not Decrease Defensive Medicine

August 9, 2013

The results of a study conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change that was funded by the National Institute for Health Care Reform and which appears in the August 2013 edition of the journal Health Affairs found that office-based physicians who reported a high level of medical malpr[...]

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