by PPN | Dec 23, 2014 | California, News
On November 4, 2014, Californians voted against Proposition 46, an unprecedented statewide ballot initiative that would have, among other things, raised the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages to $1.1 million and indexed it to the rate of inflation in future years....
by PPN | Nov 26, 2014 | Newsletter
Protect Patients Now Volume 9, Issue 11 November 2014 Newsletter E-Newsletter Special points of interest: Medical Liability Reform to put Deficit in Order Voters at the Ballot Box Put Patients First Window of Opportunity Opens for Reform Medical...
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...
