Since Ohio passed and enacted a tort-reform law in 2003, medical malpractice claims have dropped more than 40 percent and payments declined roughly at the same rate, according to a Columbus Dispatch ...

Medical malpractice plaintiffs filing suits in federal court don’t have to comply with a state affidavit of merit law, the US ...

New Mexico is on the verge of a health care access disaster — and it’s being caused by a medical malpractice insurance system that is driving out physicians, punishing hospitals, ...

An insurance company engineered a record-setting medical malpractice judgment against an Iowa clinic as part of a successful scheme to have state lawmakers approve tort-reform legislation this year, ...

There is a growing sense among Democratic lawmakers that an effort should be made to include GOP proposals in healthcare reform legislation in the wake of Thursday’s summit. This has given an opening ...

It’s probably reasonable to assume — at least from the defense standpoint — that the success rate of a statute of limitations (SOL) defense to a legal malpractice claim is virtually zero. This may be ...

How the “gist of the action” doctrine applies in the context of legal malpractice cases is a question in flux in Pennsylvania. The gist of the action doctrine is a common-law rule used in Pennsylvania ...

Providers spanning the nation often fear malpractice cases which can be both timely and costly, leading Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Rep. Tom Price, MD, (R-Ga.) to say tort reform ...

The direct costs of medical-malpractice tort claims range from $16 billion according to the Pacific Research Institute to more than $30 billion according to Tillinghast-Towers Perrin. A CBO report ...

This is in response to the March 3 guest column, "Malpractice 'reforms' go too far," by Michael Maguire. With 80 percent of malpractice suits filed nationally and 70 percent in Missouri being deemed ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Texas was the beneficiary of sweeping tort reform legislation, particularly in medical malpractice cases. The Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003 capped ...

The Florida House once again this year is charging ahead with sweeping changes to laws governing lawsuits, notwithstanding in ...