Medicine and Law FORUM ARCHIVE
While the excesses of the litigation industry alone cannot explain America's mounting medical costs, litigation is a large, and growing, contributor to our health-care bill. Medical malpractice liability–the "tort tax" on doctors and hospitals, whose costs constitute the majority of health expenses–has grown much faster than health-care inflation. Indeed, medical-malpractice liability alone constitutes over 10 percent of the entire U.S. tort tax, which by 2003 represented over $3,300 for a family of four. . . Continue reading...
Ontario to adopt medical apology law By Walter Olson, 10-07-2008 Update: truce in Colorado's labor revenge-initiative war By Walter Olson, 10-03-2008 Around the web, September 23 By Walter Olson, 09-23-2008 Aneurysm? Sorry, I have to go home By Walter Olson, 09-17-2008 Attack on arbitration moves forward in the U.S. Senate By Carter Wood, 09-11-2008 Update: Oregon Health & Science University By Walter Olson, 09-11-2008 Around the web, September 11 By Walter Olson, 09-10-2008 Philadelphia obstetrics crisis, cont'd By Walter Olson, 09-05-2008 Around the web, September 5 By Walter Olson, 09-04-2008 Australia: call for cerebral-palsy fund By Walter Olson, 09-04-2008 Around the web, August 31 By Walter Olson, 08-30-2008 At policyholders' expense By Walter Olson, 08-20-2008 Med mal "loss of a chance", cont'd By Walter Olson, 08-18-2008 Articles of Interest to Point of Law Readers By plittle, 08-14-2008 Preemption, the Congressional maneuvers By Carter Wood, 08-13-2008 Around the web, August 7 By Walter Olson, 08-06-2008 Putting the boot to preemption By Carter Wood, 08-04-2008 Around the web, August 4 By Walter Olson, 08-03-2008 "A Baby-Free New York" By Walter Olson, 08-01-2008 "Hospital Obstetrics Ward Will Close Amid Malpractice Crisis" By Walter Olson, 07-31-2008 If you're not reading Overlawyered... By Walter Olson, 07-27-2008 AZ Judges on expert witnesses: Don't tell us what to do By Carter Wood, 06-26-2008 The shadow government By Carter Wood, 06-15-2008 More critiques of Riegel v. Medtronic, preemption By Carter Wood, 06-11-2008 More Hearings on Preemption, 'Politicized Science' By Carter Wood, 06-08-2008 Examiner: lawsuit reform has worked By Walter Olson, 06-06-2008 A Congressional Response to Riegel v. Medtronic By Carter Wood, 06-04-2008 Greenwich Village's choice... By Walter Olson, 05-30-2008 Nanotubes are to Asbestos as Litigation is to Litigation By Carter Wood, 05-27-2008 Blawg Review #161 By Walter Olson, 05-27-2008 "A History of Lawsuit Reform in Texas" By Walter Olson, 05-25-2008 A response to Marc Rodwin; the Massachusetts medical malpractice crisis By Ted Frank, 05-22-2008 June 3: NY panel on birth-related injuries By Walter Olson, 05-21-2008 Massachusetts med mal: Prof. Marc Rodwin responds By Walter Olson, 05-20-2008 Marc A. Rodwin et al., Malpractice Premiums In Massachusetts By Ted Frank, 05-17-2008 Federal Preemption, the Hearing By Carter Wood, 05-15-2008 Tyrannosaurus Rex Morgan, M.D. By Carter Wood, 05-11-2008 On the Hill By Carter Wood, 05-11-2008 The Issues Being Lobbied By Carter Wood, 05-09-2008 Drafting doctors for ER duty By Walter Olson, 05-08-2008 Around the Web, May 2 By Carter Wood, 05-01-2008 Around the Web, April 28 By Carter Wood, 04-28-2008 Bisphenol A: Chemical Industry Defends Itself, Condemned By Carter Wood, 04-27-2008 Around the Web, April 25 By Carter Wood, 04-25-2008 "The False Claims Act: A Proper Tool for Enforcing Health Care Quality Standards?" By Walter Olson, 04-19-2008 $959,733 for lobbying, $585,134 in campaign contributions By Walter Olson, 04-18-2008 Medical no-fault for New York? By Walter Olson, 04-11-2008 Yes, Virginia, doctors respond to incentives By Ted Frank, 03-31-2008 New Zealand's universal no-fault By Walter Olson, 03-25-2008 Around the web, March 24 By Walter Olson, 03-23-2008 Do ankles exist? By Walter Olson, 03-21-2008 "On the Tort Reform Angle, Too Bad about Spitzer" By Walter Olson, 03-19-2008 "Where is Dr. Carl?" By Walter Olson, 03-15-2008 Funny how that works By Ted Frank, 03-08-2008 IRBs and hospital checklists By Walter Olson, 03-06-2008 The health costs of defensive medicine By Ted Frank, 03-04-2008 N.Y. high court: no time limit on AIDS-phobia claims By Walter Olson, 03-03-2008 Med-mal in the Upper Midwest By Walter Olson, 02-21-2008 "We're compensating the wrong patients..." By Walter Olson, 02-17-2008 Reasonable and customary By Walter Olson, 02-15-2008 Florida three strikes, cont'd By Walter Olson, 02-14-2008 Florida neurosurgeons By Walter Olson, 02-14-2008 How Mass Torts Are Born By Marie Gryphon, 02-08-2008 New Hampshire medical screening panels, cont'd By Walter Olson, 02-03-2008 New Hyman/Black/Silver/Sage paper on med mal caps By Ted Frank, 02-01-2008 Times: IRBs impede hospital safety improvements By Walter Olson, 01-30-2008 "Junk Medical Lawsuits" and myths By Ted Frank, 01-29-2008 Big teaching-hospital cuts after Oregon high court ruling By Walter Olson, 01-25-2008 "Flea" (Dr. Robert Lindeman) interviewed By Walter Olson, 01-17-2008 "The first question everyone I know asks is, 'Are you suing?'" By Walter Olson, 01-13-2008 Medical misinformation on the web By Walter Olson, 01-10-2008 L.A. Times on California med-mal, cont'd By Walter Olson, 01-08-2008 Oregon high court strikes down public damages cap By Walter Olson, 01-01-2008 "Disaster" foreseen with NY malpractice surcharge By Walter Olson, 12-28-2007 More successful countersuits by docs? By Walter Olson, 12-20-2007 "What determines malpractice payments?" By Walter Olson, 12-15-2007 Judge gives candy to plaintiff; jury verdict tossed By Michael Krauss, 12-14-2007 Massachusetts med-mal reform By Walter Olson, 12-14-2007 Michigan med mal By Walter Olson, 11-30-2007 Annals of legal academia By Walter Olson, 11-28-2007 Medical liability screening panels By Walter Olson, 11-21-2007 Illinois judge strikes down med-mal caps By Walter Olson, 11-14-2007 Docs' apologies By Walter Olson, 11-08-2007 Health courts and administrative med-mal compensation By Walter Olson, 11-07-2007 Around the web, November 6 By Walter Olson, 11-06-2007 Privacy law madness By Walter Olson, 10-31-2007 Colorado med-mal rates By Walter Olson, 10-23-2007 "Health Courts, Administrative Compensation and Patient Safety" By Walter Olson, 10-10-2007 John Edwards (again) on certificates of merit By Walter Olson, 10-02-2007 New York's ob/gyn crisis By Walter Olson, 09-29-2007 More on liability reform and the medically underinsured By Walter Olson, 09-24-2007 France's "model" health-care system By Walter Olson, 09-17-2007 W.V. med-mal reform, four years on By Walter Olson, 09-14-2007 Heart attacks in public places By Walter Olson, 09-12-2007 Defensive medicine: they have to be carefully taught By Walter Olson, 09-11-2007 New York orthopedic surgeons By Walter Olson, 08-31-2007 Illinois once again attracting med-mal insurers By Walter Olson, 08-29-2007 Epstein replies to Relman By James R. Copland, 08-22-2007 Medical Monitoring and Medical Standards By Deborah LaFetra, 08-17-2007 "Like an oncologist bemoaning a cancer vaccine" By Walter Olson, 08-10-2007 Gawande on U.S. malpractice "disaster" By Walter Olson, 08-09-2007 More on those "medical" bankruptcies By Walter Olson, 07-28-2007 Commuting to escape med-mal rates By Walter Olson, 07-12-2007 Lawsuit limits spur stampede of doctors to Texas By Walter Olson, 07-10-2007 The peer-review fishbowl By Walter Olson, 07-07-2007 Spitzer vows to address med-mal crisis By Walter Olson, 07-06-2007 The Times notices HIPAA By Walter Olson, 07-05-2007 Unmeasured defensive medicine costs? By Ted Frank, 06-26-2007 Mass Torts Made Perfect By Walter Olson, 06-16-2007 North Carolina med-mal compromise By Walter Olson, 06-15-2007 HIPAA in private litigation By Walter Olson, 06-10-2007 High-low agreements By Walter Olson, 06-08-2007 "Doctors don't vote, lawyers do" By Walter Olson, 06-03-2007 Charles Silver on insurance limits By Ted Frank, 05-25-2007 Backaches and compensation By Walter Olson, 05-16-2007 "The baby scramble" By Walter Olson, 05-14-2007 Health court blogging By Ted Frank, 05-09-2007 Does med-mal risk, like misery, love company? By Walter Olson, 04-26-2007 "It's a liability issue. You might fall off" By Walter Olson, 04-23-2007 Judge Sarokin on med-mal By Walter Olson, 04-19-2007 Katrina malpractice theory By Walter Olson, 04-18-2007 The golden whistle, cont'd By Walter Olson, 04-17-2007 "Whiplash and other useful illnesses" By Walter Olson, 04-15-2007 Latest Healthgrades study By Ted Frank, 04-08-2007 Connecticut doctors, squeezed By Walter Olson, 04-03-2007 Texas's welcome mat for doctors By Walter Olson, 03-28-2007 Ark. high court strikes down certificate-of-merit law By Walter Olson, 03-26-2007 Around the web, March 26 By Walter Olson, 03-26-2007 Volunteer physicians in Alabama By Walter Olson, 03-24-2007 Rudy remembers NYC hospital lawsuits By Walter Olson, 03-22-2007 More stirrings on health courts By Walter Olson, 03-15-2007 "The Equation" By Ted Frank, 03-10-2007 Wheedling neurosurgeons By Walter Olson, 02-26-2007 Sticking to the suburbs By Walter Olson, 02-23-2007 "Clear and convincing" evidence By Walter Olson, 02-17-2007 Next up: even more C-sections? By Walter Olson, 02-12-2007 Emergency room doctor shortages By Walter Olson, 02-06-2007 What docs pay, and where By Walter Olson, 02-01-2007 Hospital chief: liability curbs rev up W.V. medicine By Walter Olson, 01-31-2007 Health Wonk Review #24 By Walter Olson, 01-26-2007 "No beginning physician" could afford it alone By Walter Olson, 01-25-2007 Okla. certificate-of-merit law, cont'd By Walter Olson, 01-23-2007 Okla. high court kills certificate-of-merit law By Walter Olson, 01-22-2007 Charitable medical care in decline By Walter Olson, 01-20-2007 Arizona malpractice legislation By Walter Olson, 01-18-2007 Does Sorry Work? By Ted Frank, 01-16-2007 Public Citizen on medical malpractice By Ted Frank, 01-13-2007 "Illinois doctors' med mal rates drop" By Walter Olson, 01-02-2007 Garza verdict slashed By James R. Copland, 12-21-2006 West Virginia med-mal reforms By Walter Olson, 12-20-2006 Why medical safety isn't as easy as it seems By Ted Frank, 12-19-2006 Fla. med-mal: speaking of waivers... By Walter Olson, 12-18-2006 Trial lawyer puts money where his mouth is By Ted Frank, 12-11-2006 "Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award? Post-Verdict Haircuts in Texas Medical Malpractice Cases, 1988-2003" By Ted Frank, 12-11-2006 Medical mistakes in Japan By Walter Olson, 12-11-2006 Cats and dogs lying down together? By Walter Olson, 12-08-2006 Illinois medical liability reforms By Walter Olson, 12-03-2006 Book corner By Walter Olson, 11-29-2006 Ohio medical malpractice claim report By Ted Frank, 11-27-2006 $281,764,938 By Walter Olson, 11-22-2006 Sid Schwab (SurgeonsBlog) on getting sued By Walter Olson, 11-16-2006 New Zealand: No-fault medical error By Walter Olson, 11-15-2006 Post-reform doctor supply in Texas III By Ted Frank, 11-13-2006 Hyman and Silver: "Medical Malpractice Litigation and Tort Reform: It's the Incentives, Stupid" By Ted Frank, 11-12-2006 Pennsylvania's Fair Share Act By Walter Olson, 11-10-2006 Post-reform doctor supply in Texas II By Ted Frank, 11-07-2006 Post-reform doctor supply in Texas By Ted Frank, 11-06-2006 Health courts, administered compensation and safety By Walter Olson, 11-04-2006 "The Impact of Caps on Damages. How are Markets for Medical Liability Insurance and Medical Services Affected?" By Ted Frank, 10-04-2006 How FDA drug safety costs lives By Ted Frank, 10-03-2006 Louisiana appeals court strikes down med-mal cap By Walter Olson, 09-29-2006 Docs to their kids: don't follow in our steps By Walter Olson, 09-22-2006 Birth injury compensation funds By Walter Olson, 09-21-2006 "Death after two-hour ER wait ruled homicide" By Walter Olson, 09-19-2006 Texas med-mal rates continue plunge By Walter Olson, 09-15-2006 Michigan vs. Pennsylvania docs By Walter Olson, 09-11-2006 Loss-of-a-chance doctrine By Walter Olson, 09-03-2006 More on vaccines at MPT By James R. Copland, 08-25-2006 Plunge in Texas med-mal cases By Walter Olson, 08-25-2006 More from KevinMD By Walter Olson, 08-24-2006 "Would tort reform stop this case?" By Walter Olson, 08-24-2006 Oregon court guts public liability limits By Walter Olson, 08-21-2006 Effects of med-mal reforms By Walter Olson, 08-02-2006 Mississippi med-mal measures By Walter Olson, 07-31-2006 Katrina doctor, nurses indicted By Walter Olson, 07-31-2006 Liability reform and the medically uninsured By Walter Olson, 07-30-2006 Med-mal: Harvard Public Health study, cont'd By Walter Olson, 07-27-2006 Malpractice Liability--A Free Market Primer By James R. Copland, 07-26-2006 "Win or lose, you die a little with every case" By Walter Olson, 07-20-2006 The Impact of State Laws Limiting Malpractice Damage Awards on Health Care Expenditures By Ted Frank, 07-18-2006 Georgia court overturns more of tort reform bill By James R. Copland, 07-17-2006 Yesterday's House health hearing By Walter Olson, 07-14-2006 Health courts hearing today on Hill By Walter Olson, 07-13-2006 Slate's Med-Mal Hack Job By James R. Copland, 07-12-2006 Feature discussion begins By Ted Frank, 07-11-2006 Naming peripheral medical defendants By Walter Olson, 07-11-2006 Wisconsin Supreme Court expands malpractice liability By Ted Frank, 07-10-2006 Richard Epstein--and Others--at MPT By James R. Copland, 07-06-2006 Medical malpractice "safe harbors" By Ted Frank, 07-05-2006 Finishing Up By Bill Childs, 06-30-2006 Midwives on the verge of a nervous breakdown By Walter Olson, 06-26-2006 "9/11 Suit Tests New York Stand on Immunity" By Ted Frank, 06-23-2006 A "business judgment" rule for medical malpractice? III By Ted Frank, 06-21-2006 Federal rules allow experimental procedures without consent By Michael Krauss, 06-20-2006 Allowing interstate competition for health care (and other) law By Michael Krauss, 06-20-2006 A "business judgment" rule for medical malpractice? II By Ted Frank, 06-20-2006 A "business judgment" rule for medical malpractice? By Ted Frank, 06-20-2006 More on med-mal-study letters By Walter Olson, 06-20-2006 Empirical data and medical malpractice By Ted Frank, 06-18-2006 60 percent equals "almost every" By Walter Olson, 06-16-2006 Ohio med-mal proposals By Walter Olson, 06-14-2006 Med-mal: the Florida Times-Union regrets By Walter Olson, 06-11-2006 "Rx for American health care" By Walter Olson, 06-10-2006 Sen. Frist's family anecdote By Walter Olson, 06-07-2006 Didn't realize about defensive medicine By Walter Olson, 06-05-2006 "From physician to legislator" By Walter Olson, 06-02-2006 Oz: CP shouldn't be in court By Walter Olson, 05-26-2006 Tabarrok in WSJ on malpractice insurance By Walter Olson, 05-22-2006 New MI Study on Medical Malpractice By James R. Copland, 05-18-2006 AEI Judge & Jury event on video By Walter Olson, 05-14-2006 Med-mal cloture motion fails By Ted Frank, 05-09-2006 Blawg Review #56: Sex, Virtual Weddings, and Baseball By James R. Copland, 05-08-2006 More on medical-malpractice insurance By Ted Frank, 05-05-2006 Pennsylvania med-mal crunch By Walter Olson, 05-05-2006 Lone Star med mal law fix By Walter Olson, 05-04-2006 Ariz. governor vetoes ER liability relief By Walter Olson, 05-04-2006 Wrong-site surgery By Walter Olson, 05-03-2006 "Health Week" pushed back to May 8 By Ted Frank, 05-02-2006 "A blog I read with increasing frequency" By Walter Olson, 05-02-2006 More on Consumer Disadvocacy By Martin F Grace, 05-01-2006 Bush's remarks on medical-malpractice legislation By Ted Frank, 05-01-2006 W.V. med-mal reform By Walter Olson, 05-01-2006 Center for Justice & Democracy and Americans for Insurance Reform By Ted Frank, 04-25-2006 The Saga of Cipro By Benjamin Zycher, 04-24-2006 "The U.S. Senate Takes On Medical Malpractice Reform" By Ted Frank, 04-23-2006 "Do it for Mr. Incredible, Dad" By Walter Olson, 04-15-2006 Vanished doctors: the human costs By Walter Olson, 04-14-2006 Who outspends whom in ballot battles? By Walter Olson, 04-12-2006 Do medical malpractice caps affect care? By Ted Frank, 04-11-2006 McDarby: Gilmartin to testify By James R. Copland, 04-06-2006 Merck loses in McDarby case By James R. Copland, 04-05-2006 Windfalls ahead for Illinois plaintiffs? By Walter Olson, 04-03-2006 A comment on medical malpractice insurance rates By Ted Frank, 04-02-2006 AEI event: Medical Malpractice and Physician Supply By Ted Frank, 04-01-2006 Texas med-mal savings By Walter Olson, 03-30-2006 Lipitor Lawsuit By Sam Munson, 03-29-2006 "Neurosurgeons flee high insurance costs" By Walter Olson, 03-29-2006 First West Coast Vioxx Cases By Sam Munson, 03-27-2006 Welcoming Sam Munson By James R. Copland, 03-27-2006 Defensive medicine in the ER By Walter Olson, 03-16-2006 Good Samaritan liability By Walter Olson, 03-14-2006 No surprise: NBER paper shows medmal reform works By Ted Frank, 03-13-2006 ABA vs. health courts By Walter Olson, 03-13-2006 "States take lead in medical malpractice reform" By Walter Olson, 03-12-2006 Health Wonk Review By Walter Olson, 03-09-2006 AIR Study on Medical Malpractice By Martin F Grace, 03-07-2006 "This plaintiff's hired gun blew up in their faces" By Walter Olson, 03-04-2006 "Trial Lawyers Inc. -- Health Care" By Walter Olson, 02-26-2006 A mild disagreement with Michael By Ted Frank, 02-24-2006 Risks drop here. So why does liability increase here? By Michael Krauss, 02-24-2006 Washington state malpractice reform By Walter Olson, 02-22-2006 "Understanding medical malpractice insurance: a primer" By Walter Olson, 02-12-2006 State of the Union -- health care By Walter Olson, 02-10-2006 "The Death of Mammography" By Walter Olson, 02-07-2006 Law firms and HIPAA By Walter Olson, 02-01-2006 Australian cerebral palsy study implicates viruses By Walter Olson, 02-01-2006 Bush in SOTU on med-mal By Walter Olson, 02-01-2006 Medical liability crisis in Pennsylvania By Walter Olson, 01-30-2006 NYT Mag: How litigation costs lives By James R. Copland, 01-26-2006 Medical societies trying to sanction errant experts? Book 'em By Walter Olson, 01-26-2006 Keeping "B-readers" honest By Walter Olson, 01-24-2006 "I look at patients differently now" By Walter Olson, 01-19-2006 Being an ethical expert witness By Walter Olson, 01-10-2006 Bad month for Connecticut ob/gyns By Walter Olson, 01-05-2006 Wisconsin high court, again By Walter Olson, 01-04-2006 Memorializing "remarkable" medical testimony By Walter Olson, 01-03-2006 Anesthesiologists' success By Walter Olson, 12-22-2005 "I felt like shouting a warning to the jury" By Walter Olson, 12-19-2005 Expert medical witnesses By Walter Olson, 12-18-2005 The Medical Malpractice Myth? at AEI By Ted Frank, 12-15-2005 "Neurologists Take a Stand on Bearing Witness" By Walter Olson, 12-14-2005 2005 scorecard for med-mal reform By Ted Frank, 12-07-2005 Bill Sage responds By James R. Copland, 12-06-2005 Sorry, Wisconsin docs By Walter Olson, 12-06-2005 A pathologist recoils... By Walter Olson, 12-02-2005 Liability reform in Georgia By Walter Olson, 12-01-2005 Chester County, Pa. neurosurgeons By Walter Olson, 11-30-2005 Post-Turkey Reading By James R. Copland, 11-26-2005 Correcting Wisconsin's high court By Walter Olson, 11-23-2005 Welcome medical bloggers By Walter Olson, 11-16-2005 "C-Sections in U.S. Are at All-Time High" By Walter Olson, 11-16-2005 Featured Discussion on litigation and health care begins today By James R. Copland, 11-14-2005 Angoff's activities again By Walter Olson, 11-14-2005 "Three strikes" license suspension By Walter Olson, 11-10-2005 Balloting results By Walter Olson, 11-09-2005 Washington state ballot battle By Walter Olson, 11-08-2005 New medical malpractice blog By Walter Olson, 11-07-2005 More Refutation of Angoff's Report By Martin F Grace, 10-31-2005 Refuting Angoff on medical liability By Walter Olson, 10-31-2005 Neutral experts in Chattanooga By Ted Frank, 10-27-2005 Trial Lawyers, Inc.: Health Care By James R. Copland, 10-26-2005 Wisconsin Supreme Court By Walter Olson, 10-26-2005 "Actuaries Say Med-Mal Report Misled the Public" By Walter Olson, 10-19-2005 Med-mal paid claims, by state By Walter Olson, 10-18-2005 AJP's "Legal Reform Speaker's Resource" By Walter Olson, 10-17-2005 Doctors return to southern Illinois By Ted Frank, 10-15-2005 "Two years after medical reform, rate cuts bring relief to doctors" By Walter Olson, 10-14-2005 Miss. med-mal moderating By Walter Olson, 10-12-2005 Mississippi tort reform By Walter Olson, 09-15-2005 Washington state replays the Florida malpractice debate By Ted Frank, 09-12-2005 Wisconsin med-mal poll By Walter Olson, 08-30-2005 Clinical trials By Walter Olson, 08-29-2005 Epstein on Ernst v. Merck By James R. Copland, 08-22-2005 Quantifying defensive medicine By Walter Olson, 08-18-2005 "Wisconsin is a dangerous place to operate a business" By Walter Olson, 08-16-2005 A New Look at Tort Reform --It May Save Lives By Martin F Grace, 08-15-2005 Still low by U.S. standards By Walter Olson, 08-14-2005 Evidence-based medicine By Walter Olson, 08-13-2005 Wisconsin's lawless high court By Walter Olson, 08-11-2005 "Stability, Not Crisis" By Ted Frank, 08-10-2005 Learning the Wrong Lessons from "An American Tragedy" By David Bernstein, 08-08-2005 "Patient dumping" law By Walter Olson, 08-08-2005 Emotion in the courtroom By Walter Olson, 08-07-2005 More Simplistic Tort Reform Research By Martin F Grace, 08-04-2005 Caesarean sections By Walter Olson, 08-04-2005 DougSimpson.com By Walter Olson, 08-04-2005 New from the Washington Legal Foundation By James R. Copland, 07-29-2005 House passes HEALTH Act By James R. Copland, 07-29-2005 Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act By James R. Copland, 07-29-2005 Sued for bodily injury By Walter Olson, 07-28-2005 Donna Rovito med-mal blog By Walter Olson, 07-28-2005 Hillary's move to the center? By Ted Frank, 07-26-2005 Pennsylvania departing-docs study By Walter Olson, 07-25-2005 New York grand jury also going after asbestos plaintiffs? By Ted Frank, 07-20-2005 Wisc. high court on med-mal, cont'd By Walter Olson, 07-19-2005 Merck doctor testimony By James R. Copland, 07-18-2005 More on Michigan medical monitoring decision By James R. Copland, 07-18-2005 Michigan rejects medical monitoring By Walter Olson, 07-18-2005 Another Scruggs hospital suit down By Walter Olson, 07-15-2005 Wisconsin strikes down med-mal caps By Ted Frank, 07-14-2005 CJD's Med Math Part II By Martin F Grace, 07-13-2005 When the patient is a lawyer By Walter Olson, 07-12-2005 "Putting a lid on D.C.'s malpractice" By Walter Olson, 07-11-2005 CJD's med-mal math By James R. Copland, 07-08-2005 Doctors' apologies By Walter Olson, 07-07-2005 Texas: "The Doctor Is In" By Walter Olson, 07-03-2005 Just before the holiday... By Walter Olson, 07-02-2005 Astroturf in the liability wars By Walter Olson, 07-01-2005 Med Mal Costs 2004 By Martin F Grace, 06-29-2005 Liability Insurance Does Chase Doctors Away -- But in a Different Way By Martin F Grace, 06-24-2005 Anesthesiologists and Malpractice By Ted Frank, 06-23-2005 Hidden Costs of the Liability Crisis By Martin F Grace, 06-20-2005 Only $500K damages? Take a hike By Walter Olson, 06-20-2005 New Hampshire Med-Mal Reform By Jonathan B. Wilson, 06-14-2005 Illinois med-mal By Walter Olson, 06-02-2005 Med-mal: "making up for stock market losses" By Walter Olson, 05-31-2005 "How Texas Earned Its Stripes" By Walter Olson, 05-29-2005 Out-of-state experts By Walter Olson, 05-25-2005 D.C. medical malpractice By Walter Olson, 05-21-2005 N.J. bans "retaliating" against expert witnesses By Walter Olson, 05-18-2005 Nursing homes, cont'd By Walter Olson, 05-11-2005 Massachusetts med-mal By Walter Olson, 05-10-2005 Mind the technicalities By Walter Olson, 05-09-2005 MICRA and Prop 103 By Walter Olson, 05-08-2005 How to lie with med-mal statistics: the Public Citizen version By James R. Copland, 05-06-2005 Nursing home liability By Walter Olson, 05-05-2005 Pa. hospitals' bill: $636 million By Walter Olson, 05-03-2005 Professor Saks responds, as do I By Ted Frank, 05-02-2005 Health courts By Walter Olson, 05-02-2005 Florida showdown By Walter Olson, 05-02-2005 Emergency room admissions By Walter Olson, 04-26-2005 Florida teaching hospitals seek med-mal relief By Ted Frank, 04-21-2005 National Doctors' Day By Walter Olson, 04-19-2005 Australia: med-mal rates fall after reform By Walter Olson, 04-15-2005 Malpractice, state by state By Walter Olson, 04-14-2005 Tales of defensive medicine By Ted Frank, 04-10-2005 Med-mal: Texas relief By Walter Olson, 04-07-2005 Harvey Rosenfield and no-fault By Walter Olson, 04-06-2005 Please, not a doctor By Walter Olson, 04-05-2005 Med students By Walter Olson, 04-04-2005 How to lie with statistics, medical malpractice edition By Ted Frank, 04-03-2005 Bush malpractice reform stalls in Senate By Ted Frank, 04-03-2005 "The Perverse Nature of the Medical Liability System" By Walter Olson, 04-01-2005 White wall of silence? By Walter Olson, 03-31-2005 Pennsylvania malpractice outlays By Walter Olson, 03-30-2005 Is medical malpractice insurance defense strategy to blame? By Ted Frank, 03-25-2005 Washington state med-mal study By Walter Olson, 03-23-2005 From the Yale Alumni Magazine By Walter Olson, 03-17-2005 "Medical courts" debate By Walter Olson, 03-16-2005 Pennsylvania legislature By Walter Olson, 03-13-2005 HHS and early offers By Walter Olson, 03-11-2005 Nurse-midwives By Walter Olson, 03-06-2005 Docs' high win rate at trial By Walter Olson, 03-06-2005 Who gave the 66 cents? By Walter Olson, 03-04-2005 Jay Angoff By Ted Frank, 03-03-2005 Another Texas insurer slashes rates By Walter Olson, 03-02-2005 Running an insurer, ATLA style By Walter Olson, 03-02-2005 Fen-Phen Follies By James R. Copland, 03-01-2005 Further views of Prof. Sage By Walter Olson, 02-28-2005 New York Times, meet New York Times By Walter Olson, 02-28-2005 Welcome Business Insurance readers By Walter Olson, 02-28-2005 Welcome National Review Online readers By Walter Olson, 02-26-2005 Reader letter: Times and malpractice insurance By Walter Olson, 02-25-2005 PoL Column: Ted on Malpractice By James R. Copland, 02-23-2005 Malpractice insurance and the Times By Walter Olson, 02-22-2005 Yale Daily News on litigation reform By Walter Olson, 02-21-2005 FDA panel: Vioxx safe enough for market By James R. Copland, 02-18-2005 Law Lords: "loss of a chance" doctrine up to Parliament By Walter Olson, 02-16-2005 Medical costs and bankruptcy By Walter Olson, 02-14-2005 "See the ad Fox won't run" By Walter Olson, 02-07-2005 Illinois State of the State pushes med-mal reform By Ted Frank, 02-04-2005 South Carolina rejects "wrongful life" By Walter Olson, 02-04-2005 Mammography at risk By Walter Olson, 02-03-2005 Why, Democrats? By Walter Olson, 02-02-2005 Sen. Edwards' replacement By Walter Olson, 02-01-2005 West Virginia docs By Walter Olson, 01-31-2005 Malpractice fears By Walter Olson, 01-30-2005 Doctors' discipline and lawyers' gamesmanship By Walter Olson, 01-28-2005 Tabarrok, Surowiecki on Vioxx By James R. Copland, 01-27-2005 Yes, MICRA worked By Walter Olson, 01-26-2005 Daubert's detractors By Walter Olson, 01-21-2005 Posner oops By Walter Olson, 01-19-2005 Bob Herbert at it again By James R. Copland, 01-14-2005 Drug price controls and new drug R&D By Michael DeBow, 01-14-2005 Music to answer interrogatories by By Walter Olson, 01-14-2005 Med mal in the Senate By Walter Olson, 01-12-2005 Georgia emergency medicine By Walter Olson, 01-11-2005 New Jersey doctor shortage By Walter Olson, 01-11-2005 Pennsylvania medical countersuits By Walter Olson, 01-10-2005 New York-area hospitals By Walter Olson, 01-07-2005 Fallacies of probability: "Panel Seeks Better Disciplining of Doctors" By Ted Frank, 01-06-2005 Bush: "I'm here to talk about how we need to fix a broken medical liability system." By Ted Frank, 01-06-2005 Subsidizing docs' insurance By Walter Olson, 01-04-2005 AMA wants expert reform By Walter Olson, 01-04-2005 Med-mal: certificates of merit By Walter Olson, 12-30-2004 More on Maryland med mal By Walter Olson, 12-23-2004 Maryland med-mal: special session By James R. Copland, 12-22-2004 Posting doctors' malpractice histories By Walter Olson, 12-21-2004 "The ob/gyn and legal liability: condition critical" By Ted Frank, 12-20-2004 Bracelet campaign By Walter Olson, 12-18-2004 Medical courts By James R. Copland, 12-16-2004 Maryland med-mal By James R. Copland, 12-14-2004 Gladwell on mammography By Walter Olson, 12-14-2004 King/Drew lessons By Walter Olson, 12-14-2004 Trial lawyers qualify Wash. med-mal initiative By Walter Olson, 12-13-2004 N.C. med mal By Walter Olson, 11-30-2004 Florida's three-strikes, cont'd By Walter Olson, 11-29-2004 Obesity study flawed By James R. Copland, 11-24-2004 C-section rates By Walter Olson, 11-19-2004 "Dispelling malpractice myths" By Walter Olson, 11-19-2004 More Vioxx: Don't kill the golden goose By James R. Copland, 11-18-2004 Losing a doctor By Walter Olson, 11-18-2004 New Hampshire medicine By Walter Olson, 11-17-2004 Dust settles on medical ballot measures By Walter Olson, 11-16-2004 Emergency medicine: a gathering crisis By Walter Olson, 11-15-2004 RAND's study on MICRA By Walter Olson, 11-09-2004 Doctors and the Madison County results By Walter Olson, 11-05-2004 Florida amendments fallout By Walter Olson, 11-04-2004 Fla. amendments headed for passage By Walter Olson, 11-02-2004 Amendment 3's poll surge By Walter Olson, 11-02-2004 Fla. docs' outreach By Walter Olson, 11-02-2004 Liveblogging the ballot measures tonight By Walter Olson, 11-02-2004 Around the medblogs By Walter Olson, 11-01-2004 Wyoming med-mal study By Walter Olson, 10-28-2004 Stay tuned: New featured discussion By James R. Copland, 10-26-2004 NJ plans rescue for med-mal insurer By Walter Olson, 10-26-2004 Nonprofit hospital suit tossed out By Michael DeBow, 10-25-2004 State initiatives head to the wire By Walter Olson, 10-25-2004 Pennsylvania docs By Walter Olson, 10-21-2004 The let's-sue-each-other club By Walter Olson, 10-19-2004 Md.: Doctors self-insure By James R. Copland, 10-08-2004 The fateful 5 percent By Walter Olson, 10-07-2004 Doesn't shock her By Walter Olson, 10-06-2004 Certificate of merit, done right By Walter Olson, 10-06-2004 Malpractice reform: Maryland By Ted Frank, 10-05-2004 Lawsuit reform edu-tainment By Ted Frank, 10-04-2004 Anonymous medical experts, cont'd By Walter Olson, 10-04-2004 Featured discussion complete By Walter Olson, 10-01-2004 Letter from a doctor By Walter Olson, 09-30-2004 Dr. Rangel is exasperated By Walter Olson, 09-28-2004 Tort reform works - Mississippi By Ted Frank, 09-25-2004 Ohio med-mal crisis By Walter Olson, 09-24-2004 Welcome debate readers By Walter Olson, 09-23-2004 Edwards's courtroom record... By Walter Olson, 09-08-2004 Texas reforms reduce malpractice costs By Ted Frank, 08-25-2004 Kerry on med-mal: symbolism over substance By James R. Copland, 08-24-2004 "Defending the Practice of Medicine" By Walter Olson, 08-19-2004 Bedpan mutuals, cont'd By Walter Olson, 08-11-2004 AMA med-mal ammo By Walter Olson, 08-10-2004 Defense costs, around the country By Walter Olson, 08-05-2004 Fla. medical initiatives, cont'd By Walter Olson, 08-04-2004 More on medical errors By Walter Olson, 07-30-2004 Might there be too little med-mal liability? By Michael Krauss, 07-29-2004 Medical malpractice: costly problems, real solutions By James R. Copland, 07-28-2004 Canada, where all are equal but some are more equal than others By Michael Krauss, 07-28-2004 More on the FDA preemption question By James R. Copland, 07-26-2004 Stossel's Gimme A Break segment By James R. Copland, 07-26-2004 Anonymous experts By Walter Olson, 07-26-2004 John Stossel on med-mal By Walter Olson, 07-23-2004 Fla. initiative battle royal By Walter Olson, 07-20-2004 Edwards's cerebral palsy cases: a good perspective By James R. Copland, 07-16-2004 Dissatisfied (and much-sued) docs in Pa. By Walter Olson, 07-16-2004 "Medical Progress Today" By Walter Olson, 07-14-2004 Med-mal: no-fault, and lessons from abroad By Walter Olson, 07-14-2004 Rand: MICRA cut Calif. med-mal outlays By Walter Olson, 07-13-2004 Kerry taps Edwards -- has Trial Lawyers, Inc. entered the race? By James R. Copland, 07-06-2004 Herbert on Missouri med-mal By Walter Olson, 06-29-2004 MedPundit on Herbert By Walter Olson, 06-28-2004 Bob Herbert's "Malpractice Myths" By Ted Frank, 06-23-2004 Herbert on med-mal, cont'd By Walter Olson, 06-22-2004 The New York Times on medical malpractice By James R. Copland, 06-22-2004 Supreme Court limits HMO suits to federal courts By James R. Copland, 06-21-2004 Reforming pre- and post-judgment interest By Walter Olson, 06-21-2004 N.J. malpractice: some call it reform By Walter Olson, 06-15-2004 Med-mal: news from Libya and Somalia By Walter Olson, 06-09-2004 Does tort reform affect insurance rates? II By Ted Frank, 05-19-2004 Does tort reform affect insurance rates? By Ted Frank, 05-19-2004 Fla. docs petition to curb malpractice fees By Walter Olson, 05-19-2004 Senate nixes OB relief By Walter Olson, 05-18-2004 Risks of defensive radiology By Walter Olson, 05-18-2004 Florida AARP supports liability cap By Walter Olson, 05-16-2004 Med-mal roundup By Walter Olson, 05-16-2004 Countersue? Just try it, doc By Walter Olson, 05-14-2004 Overreading mammograms By Walter Olson, 05-14-2004 "N.C. Senate approves medical malpractice bill" By Ted Frank, 05-13-2004 "Suits on Silica Being Compared to Asbestos Cases" By Ted Frank, 05-13-2004 "Venue wish upon a star" By Walter Olson, 05-13-2004 Texas tort reform update By Ted Frank, 05-13-2004 Rx: Hired-gun control By Walter Olson, 05-13-2004 Texas's Proposition 12 By Walter Olson, 05-13-2004
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