Spoiling the Victors
<p class="source">Orange County Register</p>
<p>At least 21 of Gov. Gray Davis' aides from his recent reelection campaign now have comfortable state government jobs...</p>
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Lobbyists on Both Sides Duel in the Medical Malpractice Debate
<p class="source">The New York Times</p>
<p>For weeks, trial lawyers and consumer groups fighting against caps have been bringing malpractice victims to the Capitol -- including a 17-year-old girl whose face had been ruined by botched surgeries and a woman whose breasts had been removed unnecessari</p>
Lawmakers told damage caps ineffective
<p class="source">Associated Press</p>
<p>Measures to limit medical malpractice damage awards would make it difficult for victims to get just compensation and do little to reduce insurance costs, lawyers and malpractice victims told a House panel on Tuesday.</p>
Malpractice Reforms Fail To Cure Some States’ Premium Woes
<p class="source">National Underwriter</p>
<p>Last week we reported on states where malpractice reforms succeeded in controlling costs. This week we review several states where reforms have not delivered all of their anticipated benefits.</p>
Consumer Group Releases Doctor E-mails Detailing Strike
<p class="source">National Journals Technology Daily</p>
<p>In addition to plans of action, the e-mails also included messages that advised physicians to threaten wavering doctors with loss of referrals, the financial mainstay of many private practices.</p>
Anatomy of a Strike: Doctors’ E-Mail Shows Depth of Anger
<p class="source">The New York Times</p>
<p>A month after thousands of New Jersey doctors staged a work stoppage to protest rising malpractice insurance rates, a series of e-mail messages between doctors and protest organizers making those and other recommendations offers an intriguing glimpse into</p>
How Insurance Reform Lowered Doctors’ Medical Malpractice Rates in California
A 1988 California insurance reform initiative (Proposition 103), and not the state’s 1975 malpractice law, is the reason California doctors’ medical malpractice premiums have dropped and stabilized over the last 14 years.
Med-Mal Reform In Senate Doubtful
<p class="source">Insurance Chronicle</p>
<p>Harvey Rosenfield told the panel that a cap on liability awards, which has existed in California since 1975, would do more to improve insurers' bottom line than lower malpractice premiums and improve access to healthcare.</p>
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>
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>