Tort Reform

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• It is time to Stop Tort Reform Myths

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 127
  In Washington, President Obama stated that he would be open to suggestions about constraining medical malpractice lawsuits. However, repeated studies have shown that approximately 100,000 people die each year due to medical malpractice in our nation’s hospitals. These occur because physicians or hospitals fail ...
  2 days ago

• Senate Defeats Effort To Limit Access to the Courthouse by Medical Malpractice Victims

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 466
  Senator Ensign (R-Nevada) introduced an amendment to limit contingent fees in medical malpractice cases.  The Senator attempted to attached the language to amendment SA 2786 to H.R. 3590, which is intended to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of ...
  2 days ago

• Maines Senator Snowe Introduces Legislation To Require Malpractice Victims Go to Expense and Time Delay of Medical Screening Panels Before A Jury Trial

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 466
  Well, 37.61% of claims filed in 2005 have yet to be heard by a panel while 69% of claims filed in 2006 are still pending.  Maine  Chief Justice Saufley has called the two-trial system “a cumbersome process with unpredictable results that cost both the plaintiffs and the defendants money and time in a way that was ...
  3 days ago

• Focus | Verga makes case for GOP nomination in Fifth

  
  Augusta Free Press — Authority: 482
     Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net What’s wrong with America, if you ask Laurence Verga, isn’t just with the direction that the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress is taking, but what their Republican predecessors did, or rather didn’t do, ahead of them. “One of the reasons ...
  5 days ago

• Dems Blast Higher Hurdles for Civil Rights Claims

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (WDCpix) Last year, an Arizona housing developer known for building affordable homes for Hispanics filed a complaint against the City of Yuma, which denied his application to build homes for low to moderate income families in a predominately white high-income neighborhood. The developer sued ...
  6 days ago

• Illinois Senator Fights for Medical Malpractice Victims

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 127
  Recently Illinois Senator Dick Durbin gave a speech on the senate floor in defense of medical malpractice victims. He reminded the Senate that medical malpractice claims and lawsuit payouts are decreasing in America. Only one percent of doctors are being charged with medical malpractice and paying each year. In ...
  6 days ago

• Democrats vs. Michigan Health Care Jobs

  
  American Courthouse — Authority: 122
  Today’s Detroit News ran a commentary piece I wrote, putting the spotlight on Michigan Democrats’ efforts to help their trial lawyer buddies at the expense of Michigan jobs.  You can find the piece here.
  6 days ago

• Durbin wrongly cites CBO report claiming tort reform will kill Americans

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 600
  Illinois Democrats are in a "killer" mood these days. In a futile attempt to repeal half of the hated "corruption tax," Cook County Board President Todd Stroger the lower sales tax would cause "some people will die needlessly." In Washington, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who opposes adding tort reform to the Democrats ...
  1 week ago

• AAJ Reveals Ad Campaign During Senate Vote

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 127
  The American Association of Justice is advertising to America the problems inherent in the medical system. Every year 98,000 patients are killed by medical error . The AAJ hopes that this will alert Congress to the epidemic of medical error. Recently they took out a one page ad in Roll Call. It highlighted the ...
  1 week ago

• Real Health Care Reform Must Include Tort Reform

  
  American Courthouse — Authority: 122
  Two excellent articles in the past few days continue to make the case that effective health care reform must include meaningful medical liability reform. The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that as much as $54 billion could be saved over the next decade if Congress enacted legal reforms.In an interview ...
  1 week ago

• ObamaCare Will Increase Insurance Premiums

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 500
  One of the fundamental promises of Democrats is that their massive takeover of health care would deliver lower costs, delivering an economy of scale. The problem is that government has never been very good at lowering the cost of anything.  Quite the contrary. And what has always been true before turns out to be ...
  1 week ago

• White House Web Site Asks ‘Who Do You Trust?’ When It Comes to Government-Run Health Care

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  Few would disagree with the assertion that four words now appearing on the White House web site constitute “the fundamental question on health insurance reform.” Those words are “WHO DO YOU TRUST?”In order to answer that question, I compared the White House “spin” to what I heard directly from medical ...
  1 week ago

• Editorial highlights hypocrisy of corporate America and organized medicine

  
  Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog — Authority: 130
  The Executive Director of the Center for Justice and Democracy has published an on-point editorial on “tort reform.” The article, entitled “Memo to Corporate America and Organized Medicine: No One Likes a Hypocrite,” highlighting the hypocrisy of so-called tort reform . An example of the hypocrisy ...
  1 week ago

• Is the President Too Good for ObamaCare?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 504
  By John W. Lillpop President Obama has made it clear that enactment of health care reform is a make or break proposition for his presidency. He has even indicated that his passion for universal health care is so strong that he might forego ambitions for reelection rather than back down. He and other liberal ...
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• A call to arms for trial lawyers who can do more than sit on their asses and bitch.

  
  Justinian Lane - Commentary on law, politics, and tort "reform." — Authority: 423
  A little more than six years ago, I began blogging about the civil justice system.  When I started blogging, I was a community college student working as a paralegal for a small personal injury law firm.  I had no degree, little experience with the civil justice system, and practically no credibility whatsoever ...
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• Illinois Trial Lawyers Association President Speaks out Against Insurance Deception

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 127
  The insurance industry has tried to convince the public that it is the victim of gross medical negligence that is responsible for a health care system that is spiraling out of control. However, they fail to recognize that costs are rising at a rate well beyond inflation, a lack of healthy competition and ...
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• Those Championing Health Reform are True Hypocrites

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 127
  A story in the Huffington Post captured the great disparities in what advocates for tort reform say, and what they actually do. Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is one of the largest donors to the biggest special-interest PAC in Texas and he currently is dedicated to “slamming courtroom doors” in the face of those ...
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• There is no Proof Tort Reform Reduces Health Costs

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 127
  There is no evidence that suggests that limiting the rights of individuals to bring medical malpractice lawsuits will either lower the cost of health care or increase its quality. If this were true, Texas would have the cheapest and best health care in the nation. On the contrary, while the provisions of the tort ...
  1 week ago

• ICBC Uninsured Motorist Claims and the Health Care Costs Recovery Act

  
  ICBC Personal Injury Claims Lawyer Erik Magraken | Victoria & Vancouver Island BC — Authority: 124
  Further to my previous posts on the Health Care Costs Recovery Act , I recently had the opportunity to scrutinize the Act’s application to Uninsured Motorist Claims under Section 20 of the BC Insurance (Vehicle) Act .  It was a a bit of a lengthy exercise so I thought I would share my findings for the benefit of ...
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• Congressman Fights for Patient Safety

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 127
  Representative Bruce Braley gave a last-minute speech about medical errors moments before the House voted on the health reform bill earlier this month. He asked who was supposed to speak for the patients. He quoted an Institute of Medicine report stating that, “[t]he most significant way to reduce the cost of ...
  2 weeks ago

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