by PPN | Jun 27, 2024 | Colorado, COVID, National, Newsletter, Pennsylvania, Texas
Pennsylvania venue shopping leads to looming liability crisis A growing number of physicians and access to care advocates are joining together to warn of a looming liability crisis resulting from venue shopping and medical lawsuit abuse in Pennsylvania. Over the past...
by PPN | May 30, 2024 | Iowa, Kentucky, National, Newsletter, Tennessee
Kentucky acts to stop abuse of medical liability system A bill signed into law in Kentucky aims to get ahead of aggressive abuses of the medical liability system, sidestepping issues experienced in other states that threaten access to care. The bill, HB 159,...
by PPN | Apr 30, 2024 | California, COVID, District of Columbia, Florida, National, New York, Newsletter
Shining a light on third-party financing of liability lawsuits Opinion leaders in the Sunshine State are pushing for the legislature to shed light on third-party financing of medical liability lawsuits, calling for a special legislative session to curb this practice,...
by PPN | Mar 27, 2024 | California, COVID, District of Columbia, Florida, National, New York, Newsletter, North Carolina, Pennsylvania
Campaign donations linked to expanding litigation laws in New York In pursuit of new avenues that would allow for an expanded ability to file liability lawsuits in New York, personal injury lawyers have pumped an increasing amount of money into the campaign coffers of...
by PPN | Feb 28, 2024 | National, Newsletter, Pennsylvania
Mega verdicts are the new norm Once the exception, sky high verdicts in medical liability lawsuits are making up an increasingly larger proportion of awards in the U.S. and becoming the new norm. This comes as Medscape reports that 2023 was a record high year in terms...
by PPN | Jan 30, 2024 | Florida, Montana, National, Newsletter
Montana maintains liability limits, but risks remain A jackpot jury award in Montana was reduced in alignment with the state’s reasonable limits on non-economic damages, but not before a sixteen-month period of uncertainty that left the medical liability climate at...
