Researchers found the incidence and cost of medical malpractice lawsuits at an academic medical center in Texas decreased significantly after the implementation of tort reform in the state, according ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the latest TWS, Fred Barnes writes on the need for tort reform in health-care reform: tort reform remains a key to paring costs. The president can make a stab at directly cutting back spending on ...

After having spent much of the last two weeks in a coma, a medical malpractice tort reform "pill" that doctors, lawyers, hospitals, and other healthcare providers can swallow will shortly pass out of ...

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 ...

Professional Liability Legal Malpractice: Negligence vs. Breach of Contract The statute of limitations for a legal malpractice action arising from negligence is two years. For a breach of contract, it ...

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, severely restricting ...