by PPN | Jun 30, 2016 | Arkansas, California, National, Newsletter, Pennsylvania
Republican Health Care Task Force Offers Medical Liability Solutions for Patients, Physicians New health care reforms, including medical liability proposals, were introduced last week by the Republican Health Care Task Force and formally kicked off initiatives that...
by PPN | May 31, 2016 | Newsletter
Encouraging Candor between Physicians, Patients Thanks to a multi-million dollar liability reform grant initiative, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has announced the availability of an online toolkit to assist physicians and healthcare providers with...
by PPN | Apr 28, 2016 | Newsletter
Illinois’ Court Set to Rule on Liability Limitations Under fire in the state of Illinois are the statute of limitations for medical liability lawsuits, with the possibility that they could be extended and leave physicians indefinitely vulnerable to medical lawsuit...
by PPN | Jan 28, 2016 | Newsletter
Risky Business: Subjecting Texas Physicians to Unfriendly Liability Climates While Texas patients have benefited from lower costs and an increase in specialty physicians in the decade since comprehensive medical liability reform was enacted, current litigation in New...
by PPN | Dec 30, 2015 | Newsletter
Tennessee Legislators Looking Ahead to Preserve Access to Care Having passed comprehensive medical liability reform in 2011 and cognizant of the improvements in access to care achieved since then, Tennessee physicians are taking additional steps to protect patients by...
by PPN | Nov 30, 2015 | Newsletter
Conversation Starter: Effects of Defensive Medicine on Liability Claims As the sky high cost of ordering more tests than is medically necessary further adds to the burden of an already expensive health care system, researchers in an initial study of defensive medicine...
