by PPN | Jul 28, 2011 | Newsletter
Protect Patients Now Volume 6, Issue 7 July 2011 Newsletter E-Newsletter Special points of interest: Bipartisan “Gang of Six” Supports Medical Liability Reform Mississippi on the Mend From Veto to Victory Health Courts Bill Introduced in the House Reaching...
by PPN | Jul 28, 2011 | Georgia, News
Washington – New House legislation aims to curb the overuse of health care by establishing clinical best practices for physicians and creating health care tribunals to hear medical liability cases. “The practice of defensive medicine adds billions of...
by PPN | Jul 28, 2011 | News, North Carolina
RALEIGH N.C. — Victims of North Carolina doctors guilty of medical malpractice will be limited to $500,000 what they can collect for pain, suffering and lost body parts under legislation the state House passed into law over a veto by Gov. Beverly Perdue. The...
by PPN | Jul 27, 2011 | News, West Virginia
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals stuck by the state’s cap for medical liability non-economic damages in its June 22 decision on a case filed against City Hospital. James D. MacDonald and his wife Debbie filed the suit in February after James had undergone...