Editorial – Medical Malpractice
<p class="source">Florida Today</p>
<p>While caps would lower insurance campanies' payouts, nothing would be done to restrict their ability to boost insurance premiums.</p>
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The Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis Hoax;
<h3>The Corporate Drive for Legal Immunity</h3><p class="source">Multinational Monitor</p>
<p>Applying a one-size-fits-all limit to non-economic damages objectifies and erases the person, considering them as a fixed "thing" for the purposes of law so that there is no recognition of the uniqueness of their suffering.</p>
Testimony of Harvey Rosenfield on Medical Malpractice Insurance
<h3>Before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health</h3>
<p>FTCR President Harvey Rosenfield presents testimony on the success of California Insurance reform, Proposition 103, in restraining medical malpractice insurance premiums and the failure of the state's severe malpractice liability caps to reduce rates.</p>
Malpractice caps need to retain flexibility
<p class="source">The Nashville City Paper</p>
<p>Doctors who face mountainous malpractice insurance premiums because of over-the-top "pain and suffering" lawsuit awards should get relief. But we don't think a blanket cap of $250,000 is the answer.</p>
New Jersey Doctors’ Strategy Email #2
<!-- excerpt --><p>Read second email outlining doctors' tactics to divert attention from the real cause of the malpractice "crisis"</p>
Award limits won’t cut premiums
<h3>Malpractice report is 'shallow,' needs work, senator says</h3><p class="source">The Louisville Courier-Journal (KY)</p>
<p>Limits on jury awards, which would be permitted by a proposed constitutional amendment supported by physicians, could raise but won't reduce doctors' malpractice insurance premiums, according to a draft study by the General Assembly's staff.</p>
Med Mal Caps Won’t Solve Insurance Hikes
<p class="source">Connecticut Law Tribune</p>
<p>It became apparent that caps did not succeed in lowering insurance rates, since just the opposite occurred. Punishment for insurers was swift and severe. In 1988, California voters passed Proposition 103, which rolled back and severely regulated insurance</p>
C.L.U.E. (Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange) Irks Consumer Groups
<p class="source">National Underwriter</p>
<p>Consumer advocates complain that some insurers are using the C.L.U.E. database to aggressively non-renew or sell at high prices in the tight insurance market.</p>
Pain vs. premiums: Who will pay the price in malpractice debate?
<h3>Doctors say soaring insurance rates drive them out of high-risk specialties; patients argue lawsuit limits would leave some vulnerable to substandard care.</h3><p class="source">The Seattle Times</p>
<p>Jennifer Rufer is a young woman from Spanaway who lost her childhood dream of becoming a mother when doctors, misdiagnosing her with cancer, cut out her uterus and part of a lung and dosed her with chemotherapy.</p>
Texas Legislature Launches Heated Debate On Medical Malpractice Reform.
<p class="source">The Bulletin Frontrunner (Texas)</p>
<p>Harvey Rosenfield of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights told a House panel that limiting damages to $250,000 would probably not solve the insurance crisis that Texas physicians want lawmakers to address.</p>
Panel tackles cap on damages;
<h3>High cost of medical malpractice insurance in Texas sparks debate</h3><p class="source">The Dallas Morning News</p>
<p>The Texas Legislature formally launched debate Wednesday over whether to place a cap on medical malpractice lawsuit judgments...</p>
Pain at the pump
<h3>The specter of war and other factors send gas prices soaring</h3><p class="source">Sacramento Bee</p>
<p>The current price "is not based on the actual supply available today," said Jamie Court, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica. "This is basically wartime profiteering by oil companies."</p>