Doctors have put a cap on the truth
<p class="source">New Jersey Star-Ledger</p>
<p>The demonstrating doctors have been playing a catchy but monotonous and thoroughly misleading tune about malpractice.</p>
Insurance
Insurance news, investigations, and reform — auto, home, and health insurance rates, claims denials, and industry accountability.
MedMal ‘Crisis’ Hill Action Heats Up, But Divisions May Send Issue To States
<p class="source">Insurance Chronicle</p>
<p>The issue of medical malpractice liability insurance premiums heated up in Washington last week as hearings on the issue were held in both houses of Congress and various special interest groups jockeyed to make their case to lawmakers.</p>
California Experience
<p class="source">Kansas City Star</p>
<p>There is an equal argument to be made that premiums in California actually didn't decline until 1988, when voters passed Proposition 103, which gave the state and voters new tools to investigate and limit the insurance industry's rates and practices.</p>
Ballot budgeting considered
<h3>Democrats say voters may be needed to do what lawmakers won't.</h3><p class="source">Sacramento Bee</p>
<p>California's Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights wants to band together with other groups to change commercial property tax rules, particularly to spare health care programs targeted for deep cuts in the Davis budget.</p>
Place No Cap On Reform
<p class="source">Palm Beach Post</p>
<p>California's "successful experience," however, also included a voter-approved rollback of malpractice premiums. The Florida task force recommends nothing like that.</p>
Consumer groups say malpractice caps not best solution to crisis
<p class="source">Associated Press</p>
<p>The state should regulate insurance companies better and crack down on doctors who repeatedly commit malpractice to address ballooning malpractice premiums in New Jersey, consumer groups said Wednesday.</p>
How to Address the Insurance and Malpractice Crises Facing the Nation
<h3>Recommendations for Insurance Reform and Reducing Malpractice</h3>
<p>Solving the medical malpractice crisis requires both insurance reform and improvements to our system for assuring quality healthcare.</p>
Solving the Medical Malpractice Crisis
<h3>Congressional Testimony of Harvey Rosenfield (February 10, 2003)</h3>
<p>Harvey Rosenfield's testimony concerning the impact of liability caps compared with insurance regulation on medical malpractice insurance rates before the the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, in Langhorne,</p>
How Insurance Reform Lowered Doctors’ Medical Malpractice Rates In California
<h3>And How Malpractice Caps Failed</h3>
<p>This report analyzes and compares the impact of legal restrictions versus insurance regulation on medical malpractice premiums.</p>
Medical Malpractice Insurers Agreed to Refunds
<h3>Stipulations and Consent Orders Concerning Prop 103 Rollbacks</h3>
<p>In 1992 California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi settled rate rollback cases with three of California's largest medical malpractice insurers - Norcal Mutual, SCPIE and The Doctors Co. This document contains the stipulation and consent</p>
Proposition 103 Freezes Insurance Rates
<h3>News Articles</h3>
<p>After the enactment of Proposition 103 California Insurance Commisisoner John Garamendi froze insurance rates. This file includes news articles describing the rate freeze.</p>
House bill would put caps on malpractice awards
<h3>California already limits amount for pain and suffering, but not punitive damages.</h3><p class="source">The Orange County Register</p>
<p>However, it is expected to face stiff opposition in the Senate, where many Democrats insist that investment losses by insurance companies, not lawsuits, are to blame for the medical-liability problems.</p>