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 | Jul 30, 2018 | Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Newsletter, Oregon, Texas, Wisconsin
Wisconsin court preserves reforms – and access to care A decision this month by Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court kept intact liability reforms that have placed reasonable limits on noneconomic damages and resulted in lower health care costs for patients and physicians....
by PPN | Jul 30, 2018 | Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Wisconsin
Medical liability reform is a high state legislative priority for the AMA. Not surprisingly, then, it is also a high priority for the Litigation Center for the American Medical Association and State Medical Societies. Evidence of this is the Litigation Center’s...
by PPN | Jun 28, 2018 | Arkansas, Newsletter, Pennsylvania, Texas
Liability reform empowers physicians to avoid defensive medicine While evidence strongly suggests that the potential for liability lawsuits results in treatments and tests that may not be otherwise necessary, new data shows that medical liability reform may be...
by PPN | Jun 28, 2018 | Arkansas, Texas
In 1987 I had a baby girl in Houston, Texas. She was born a month early, and despite complications, she was delivered at a little over five pounds. We were lucky at that time because we lived in Houston, home of one of the greatest medical centers in the world. But...
