About the HCLA

The Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA) is a national advocacy coalition working to enact medical liability reform at the federal level to help reduce health care costs for all Americans and to ensure patient access to quality medical care.

Founded in 1993, the HCLA is a key resource for Members of Congress and their staffs, state and federal government agencies, health care policy experts, the media, and the public. In addition to analyzing legislative policy initiatives, testifying before the US Congress, sponsoring congressional staff briefings, conducting public opinion polling and candidate surveys, the HCLA sponsors Protect Patients Now (PPN), a grassroots advocacy organization comprised of physicians, patients and concerned citizens dedicated to reforming our nation’s broken liability system.

The HCLA, along with its grassroots network, Protect Patients Now, has committed to curing the problem, working tirelessly with elected officials on both sides of the aisle in support of comprehensive medical liability reform at the federal level. We are dedicated to reforming our medical liability system to increase patient safety, ensure that injured patients are compensated quickly and fairly, improve provider-patient communications, and ensure affordable and accessible medical liability insurance.

• Sustaining Members

  • American Association of Neurological Surgeons
  • Congress of Neurological Surgeons
  • American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons
  • American Medical Association
  • Cooperative of American Physicians
  • MLMIC Insurance
  • MPL Association
  • Physicians Insurance, A Mutual Company

  • Contributing Members

  • American College of Surgeons
  • Texas Medical Liability Trust
  • The Doctors’ Company
  • Regular Members
  • American Osteopathic Association
  • AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
  • American Academy of Dermatology
  • American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
  • American College of Emergency Physicians
  • American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • American Health Care Association
  • American Hospital Association
  • American Society of Anesthesiologists
  • American Society of Plastic Surgeons
  • American Tort Reform Association
  • American Urological Association
  • Californians Allied for Patient Protection
  • COPIC Insurance Company
  • Federation of American Hospitals
  • ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company
  • Medical Assurance Company of Mississippi
  • Medical Insurance Exchange of California
  • MedPro Group
  • National Association of Spine Specialists
  • ProAssurance
  • SVMIC
  • Texas Alliance for Patient Access