October 2016 Newsletter

  Medical liability efforts credited with restraining insurance rates Medical liability insurance rates remained stable, albeit high, in 2016, with medical liability initiatives credited for preventing further sharp increases in costs for physicians. According to the...

Feldman: Indiana leads in malpractice reform

When making the decision to apply to medical school, I told my father, a revered family doctor in South Bend for more than 40 years, that I had anxieties about becoming a doctor. He told me that doctors are human and like all human beings, physicians make mistakes. He...

Tort Reform’s Impact On Health Care Costs

SUMMARY: The American Action Forum (AAF) found multiple state medical liability reforms reduced total healthcare premiums by 2.6 percent. Employer healthcare costs also declined by 3.5 percent. If these results were replicated on a national level, the nation’s insured...