by PPN | Nov 25, 2014 | News
Crisis, it is said, means both danger and opportunity. In medical liability reform, however, greater opportunity may lie in noncrisis. In this issue of JAMA, Mello and colleagues offer data suggesting that no crisis of the conventional sort currently exists in the...
by PPN | Oct 30, 2014 | Newsletter
Protect Patients Now Volume 9, Issue 10 October 2014 Newsletter E-Newsletter Special points of interest: New Study Validates Importance of Limits on Non-Economic Damages HCLA Radio Ads Mobilize Support for Pro-Liability Reform Candidate...
by PPN | Oct 30, 2014 | California, Florida, Idaho, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, News, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin
For the seventh straight year, malpractice insurance premiums have decreased for three bellwether specialties, and even for sticker-shocked obstetrician-gynecologists on Long Island in New York, according to an annual premium survey released this week by Medical...
by PPN | Sep 30, 2014 | Newsletter
Protect Patients Now Volume 9, Issue 9 September 2014 Newsletter E-Newsletter Special points of interest: Defensive Medicine Becoming the Rule Rather than the Exception Editorial Review: Major California Newspapers Oppose Misdirected Liability Ballot Measure Texas...
by PPN | Sep 30, 2014 | News
Physicians order unnecessary tests and procedures to inoculate themselves from legal liability more than they realize, according to a new survey of physicians at several hospitals in one Massachusetts health system. Nearly a third of the orders that the surveyed...
