Medical Malpractice Law

Attack on Patients’ Legal Rights Nears House Vote Over Outcries of Consumer and Public Interest Groups – StreetInsider.com

Malpractice liability limits and insurance regulation in California The medical malpractice liability limits in H.R. 5 are modeled after a California law that failed to reduce malpractice insurance premiums or overall health costs, the purported aim of the …

Attack on Patients’ Legal Rights Nears House Vote Over Outcries of Consumer and Public Interest Groups – PR Newswire

Malpractice liability limits and insurance regulation in California The medical malpractice liability limits in H.R. 5 are modeled after a California law that failed to reduce malpractice insurance premiums or overall health costs, the purported aim of the …

Menlo Park woman receives $22 million medical malpractice verdict – Marin Independent Journal

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation has been slapped with a $22 million medical malpractice verdict after a Menlo Park … said Jeff Mitchell of San Francisco-based law firm Emison Hullverson Mitchell LLP. The procedure was done at Stanford …

Menlo Park woman receives $22 million medical malpractice verdict – San Jose Mercury News

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation has been slapped with a $22 million medical malpractice verdict after a Menlo Park … said Jeff Mitchell of San Francisco-based law firm Emison Hullverson Mitchell LLP. The procedure was done at Stanford …

IPAB repeal hits ideological snags – Politico.com

a panel created as part of the Democrats’ health-care law. Its purpose: Keep Medicare spending down. To pay for repealing that provision costs big money, and Republicans wanted to offset the cost with medical malpractice reform — something …

GOPers clash over health-law repeal – Politico.com

a panel created as part of the Democrats’ health-care law. Its purpose: Keep Medicare spending down. To pay for repealing that provision costs big money, and Republicans wanted to offset the cost with medical malpractice reform — something they think … Continue reading

Malpractice Reform, IPAB Repeal, NIH Funding Among Hot Topics On Capitol Hill – Kaiser Health News

In a letter to members of the House, Public Citizen said the tort reform measure would “prove devastating to medical malpractice victims, overturn numerous state laws and escalate the costs of existing government programs by saddling the state …

Hull Barrett Attorney Named to North Augusta, SC Family Y Board of Directors – Times Union

First Amendment and media law; medical malpractice defense and environmental matters. Hull Barrett represents a broad client base of major corporations, small businesses, professional entities, financial and lending institutions, local governments …

Medical website can omit malpractice from doctors’ records – Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Medical board officials said they are confident that malpractice insurance companies are complying with state and federal laws and reporting virtually every disposition. But the board’s annual reports show that in 2004, 2005 and 2009 …

A Medical Liability Reform That Will Actually Work – Huffington Post

On Wednesday, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee began marking up a bill (H.R. 5) that is a top priority for some in the new Republican House — federalizing state medical malpractice laws by taking away the legal rights of sick … Continue reading