January 2013 Newsletter

Protect Patients Now Volume 8, Issue 1 January 2013 Newsletter E-Newsletter Special points of interest: Long Liability Process Keeps Patients in the Waiting Room New Year’s Resolution for Reform in Missouri State Briefs Long Liability Process Keeps Patients in the...

MO GOP To Bring Back Tort Reform In 2013

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri lawmakers have their eyes on reinstating liability limits for medical malpractice cases after the state Supreme Court struck down an existing cap on damages last summer. Republicans claim a supermajority when the Legislature meets...

The Drawn Out Process of the Medical Lawsuit

She was one of the most highly sought radiologists in her hospital, a doctor with the uncanny ability to divine the source of maladies from the shadows of black and white X-ray films. But one afternoon my colleague revealed that she had been named in a lawsuit,...

Branstad keeps his address quiet, serious

It was a mostly silent Legislature that took in Gov. Terry Branstad’s annual Condition of the State address Tuesday. Applause lines in the roughly 30-minute speech were rare, and lawmakers mostly ignored the cues to clap. That doesn’t necessarily mean legislators were...