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• Family Doctor Calls Sen. Ben Nelson a Healthcare Coward

  
  Chicago News Bench — Authority: 544
  Dec. 21, 2009 - Early this morning, the U.S. Senate voted 60 to 40 early to limit debate on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reids amendment to the healthcare reform bill. That now allows a final vote on Christmas Eve to pass the bill the bill. It was a tight vote, with a lot of deal making by Democrats leading up to ...
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• Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 556
  The Texas Progressive Alliance brings you the highlights from the blogs. As the deadline to file for a place on the 2010 March primary ballot drew near, there was lots of activity on the Democratic side: Kinky Friedman followed Hank Gilbert over to the race for agriculture commissioner, Linda Chavez-Thompson was ...
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• December 21 roundup

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 643
  “CBO Stands By Its Report: Tort Reform Would Save Billions” [ ShopFloor ; our weekend post on what actually wound up in Reid bill] “Indianapolis Tacks on Steep Fines for Challenging Traffic Tickets” [ Balko ] “Fugitive Located Inside Homeland Security Dept. Office” [ Lowering the Bar ] Assumption ...
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• Lawyers: Cant Afford Them, Cant Kill Them

  
  United Conservatives of Virginia — Authority: 527
  Trial lawyers buy Democrats in Congress Examiner Editorial December 21, 2009 Neither of the Obamacare proposals now before Congress includes a medical malpractice reform provision despite the fact that the public wants one -- and that it would cut annual health care costs by $200 billion. A medical malpractice ...
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• Texas Tort Reform: Failure

  
  Three Wise Men — Authority: 133
  In 2003 the Texas legislature passed tort reform that, among other things, limited non-economic damages for plaintiffs in medical malpractice suits. The effect of this was to make it highly impractical for many plaintiffs to pursue their cases, however meritorious they were, because the (relatively) small amount ...
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• ‘Doctors overprescribe antibiotics in fear of lawsuits’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, December 19 (ANI): Doctors are overprescribing antibiotics in fear of lawsuits, a new study claims.Researchers at New York Medical College believe that medical liability concerns may be triggering the increase of MRSA in healthcare settings by encouraging clinicians to prescribe antibiotics more often and ...
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• Read Reid’s Bill

  
  Forgot To Ask — Authority: 114
  Senator Tom Coburn (our hero) Stops Disastrous Health Care Bill Dead In Its Tracks! I wish to commend the Republican Senate for finally exhibiting a backbone.  There have been many instances, where by use of parliamentary procedures, this health care monstrosity could have been delayed.  I would wish that ...
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• Drug Lawsuits Made These States Judicial Hellholes

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 543
  Once again, New Jersey has made the unflattering list of places where judges “systematically apply laws and court procedures in an inequitable manner, generally against defendants in civil lawsuits,” according to the American Tort Reform Association, which compiles the annual ranking. And Alabama has landed on the ...
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• Judicial Hellholes

  
  New York Personal Injury Law Blog — Authority: 563
  Over at the PopTort comes this humdinger of a letter they sent to the American Tort Reform Association , of which I give you but a snippet : Your courageous "Judicial Hellholes" report at long last draws attention to the many injustices corporations have to face day in and day out. ...
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• ATRA Releases Annual “Judicial Hellholes” Report

  
  American Courthouse — Authority: 117
  It’s that time of year again — today the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) released its yearly Judicial Hellholes report.  Topping the list this year:South FloridaWest VirginiaCook County, ILAtlantic County, NJNew Mexico Appellate CourtsNew York CityOn ATRA’s “Watch List”CaliforniaAlabamaGulf Coast ...
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• New Report Shows that State Tort Reforms Don’t Lower Premiums for Doctors or Patients

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 125
  An analysis of data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and company annual statements shows malpractice insurer profits are 24 percent higher in states with caps. In the cap states, insurers took in 3.5 times more in premiums than they paid out in 2008. However, insurers in states without ...
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• Asbestos Attorneys Fight for Mesothelioma Victims

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 150
  Mesothelioma is a rare and extremely lethal form of cancer, in which malignant cells are found in the protective sac covering most of the body’s internal organs. Mesothelioma, which is caused by exposure to asbestos, can take three to five decades to strike its victims. Those with the greatest risk of developing ...
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• Dick Wolf’s Law and Order SVU – A Cancer On Viewers

  
  Liberally Conservative — Authority: 126
  This week’s episode of “Law & Order: SVU” featured a character played by John Larroquette talking to a detective and saying: “Limbaugh, Beck, O’Reilly, all of ‘em, they are like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate…They’ve convinced folks that immigrants are the problem, corporations that fail ...
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• 16 American Workers Die Every Day Due To Unsafe Workplaces

  
  DC Metro Area Personal Injury Law Blog — Authority: 123
     Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri , founding partner                                                                                                                      All too often, employers consider profits over people, allowing their job ...
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• Letter to the Editor: Standing up for rights is not frivolous

  
  Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog — Authority: 130
  In a timely letter to the editor at the Chicago Sun Times , the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association President Peter J. Flowers responded to the unreliability and disconnect embraced by anti-consumer groups. Mr. Flowers responded to the December 4 piece by a “tort reform” supporter, Travis Akin, who used a slanted ...
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• Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 466
   From the American Association for Justice:   State tort reforms have provided a boon to insurance companies, leading to record profits while physician and patient premiums continue to skyrocket. An analysis of data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and company annual statements ...
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• Call for Tort Reform Becomes a Distraction to Health Care Debate

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 125
  Those opposed to real health care and health insurance reform are now using tort reform as a scapegoat to achieving real health care. Tort reform will hurt innocent patients injured through no fault of their own. The American Association for Justice has recently released a new analysis report entitled “Five Myths ...
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• It is time to Stop Tort Reform Myths

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 125
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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