by PPN | Jan 28, 2016 | Newsletter
Risky Business: Subjecting Texas Physicians to Unfriendly Liability Climates While Texas patients have benefited from lower costs and an increase in specialty physicians in the decade since comprehensive medical liability reform was enacted, current litigation in New...
by PPN | Jan 23, 2016 | Indiana, News
State lawmakers are set to take up a proposal that would increase Indiana’s cap on medical malpractice payments for the first time in 17 years. The bill scheduled for review by an Indiana Senate committee on Monday would boost the state’s current limits on...
by PPN | Jan 19, 2016 | New Mexico, News, Texas
A medical malpractice lawsuit filed in Albuquerque by a Curry County woman who had gastric bypass surgery in 2004 at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock has sent a thorny question to the New Mexico Supreme Court. While it would seem reasonable...
by PPN | Jan 18, 2016 | News, Tennessee
Despite a series of tort-reform measures approved by lawmakers in recent years, Tennessee physicians say they need further protection — in the form of an amendment to the state constitution — against the threat of large awards in medical malpractice lawsuits. The...