by PPN | Feb 8, 2018 | Kentucky, News
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A sweeping measure to regulate everything from trial attorney fees, medical record copying charges and how malpractice lawsuits are brought passed the state Senate Health and Welfare Committee yesterday. The legislation was described as an omnibus...
by PPN | Jan 24, 2018 | California, National, News, Uncategorized
The American Medical Association (AMA) today released a new series of trend reports in its Policy Research Perspective series illustrating the price Americans pay for the nation’s broken medical liability system. “Information in this new research paints a bleak...
by PPN | Jan 9, 2018 | News, North Dakota
A judge has found a North Dakota law limiting damages in medical malpractice cases to be unconstitutional. In a case involving a woman who was disabled due to a surgery at CHI St. Alexius Health, South Central Judicial District Judge Cynthia Feland denied a motion...
by PPN | Dec 26, 2017 | National, News
In late June, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would impose a number of restrictions on malpractice litigation, including a $250,000 cap on noneconomic damage awards. Click here to read our original report on the vote. In this follow-up, we check on...
by PPN | Dec 15, 2017 | California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, Michigan, National, News, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Uncategorized
One thing physicians from Florida to Hawaii had in common in 2017 was that the Litigation Center of the American Medical Association and State Medical Societies had their backs. The Litigation Center was involved in legal battles that helped prevent an insurance...
by PPN | Dec 5, 2017 | Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, National, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, News, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 5, 2017 – The American Tort Reform Foundation issued its 2017-2018 Judicial Hellholes® report today, naming courts in Florida, California, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois and Louisiana among the nation’s “most unfair”...
