by PPN | Oct 30, 2018 | Texas
SOURCE: San Antonio Express-News – https://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Tort-reform-saved-Texas-nursing-homes-13267186.php Fifteen years ago, Texas nursing home care was in a liability insurance crisis that threatened to close some of the...
by PPN | Sep 28, 2018 | Arkansas, Newsletter, State Info, Texas
Texas hold ‘em: 15 years since reform In the 15 years since comprehensive medical liability reforms were enacted, Texas has held on to physicians – and held off those seeking to return to a time when patient access to care was at risk. Initially enacted in 2003,...
by PPN | Sep 27, 2018 | Arkansas
SOURCE: Times Record – http://www.swtimes.com/news/20180911/appeal-filed-to-count-issue-1-votes-on-arkansas-ballot A notice of appeal was filed Friday with the Arkansas Supreme Court by Arkansans for Jobs and Justice to have Issue 1 votes counted in the November...
by PPN | Sep 27, 2018 | State Info
SOURCE: AAOS Now – https://www.aaos.org/AAOSNow/2018/Sep/YourAAOS/youraaos01 In early July, we learned of the largest single payout to a patient for medical malpractice. The case involved spine surgery, so my friends—both those in health care and not—asked me to...
by PPN | Aug 30, 2018 | Connecticut, Kentucky, Newsletter
The reality of defensive medicine With projections about the cost implications of defensive medicine in the hundreds of millions of dollars, a new study showed greater insight into how physicians treated patients when they were not subject to the threat of lawsuits....
