June 2022 Newsletter

Defensive medicine brings inflation to health care costs As inflation touches on every aspect of consumer prices, health care costs have been continually increasing due to the practice of defensive medicine — and could go up even higher from here. An opinion piece in...

May 2022 Newsletter

Modernizing MICRA To head off a November ballot measure that would have eliminated MICRA and its long-standing success in reforming California’s medical liability system, an agreement was announced to modify MICRA for the benefit of patients and physicians. Passed in...

April 2022 Newsletter

Attempt to Expand Informed Consent Harms Patient Care The Supreme Court of Washington state is reviewing a case that could have damaging implications in the delivery of patient care if informed consent is expanded beyond its current standards. As it stands, informed...

March 2022 Newsletter

HCLA actively advocates for Good Samaritan protections This month, the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA) voiced its support for federal Good Samaritan legislation, actively advocating that Congress include the Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act...