by PPN | Dec 30, 2015 | Newsletter
Tennessee Legislators Looking Ahead to Preserve Access to Care Having passed comprehensive medical liability reform in 2011 and cognizant of the improvements in access to care achieved since then, Tennessee physicians are taking additional steps to protect patients by...
by PPN | Dec 15, 2015 | Florida, News
Pointing to the Legislature’s efforts to address a “crisis,” Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office is urging the Florida Supreme Court to uphold a key part of a controversial 2003 medical-malpractice law. A friend-of-the-court brief filed by...
by PPN | Dec 1, 2015 | News, Tennessee
Fearful that Tennessee courts could eventually strike down a 2011 law capping jury awards in medical malpractice lawsuits, doctors plan to press legislators to protect the statute through amending the state’s constitution. The Tennessee Medical Association wants...
by PPN | Nov 30, 2015 | Newsletter
Conversation Starter: Effects of Defensive Medicine on Liability Claims As the sky high cost of ordering more tests than is medically necessary further adds to the burden of an already expensive health care system, researchers in an initial study of defensive medicine...
by PPN | Nov 23, 2015 | News
Government policy mistakes raise the prices of the things that Americans buy. An average American household can expect to pay an extra $4,440 each year thanks to just 12 such policy mistakes that have large costs and few benefits. Local, state, and federal governments...