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The Triangle Business Journal of North Carolina writes, "Seventy-four percent of American physicians believe they have less
control over the way they practice medicine than they did five years
ago, mostly due to medical malpractice litigation." Read more ...
Source: triangle.bizjournals.com
Survey: 74 percent of doctors want tort reform
Illinois Civil Justice League In response to the Rock Island Argus editorial below ... please click here to email Congress to tell them to include lawsuit reform in the health care bill:
Illinois Civil Justice League : Tell Congress to Include Lawsuit Reforms as Part of Health Care Refo
Source: www.capwiz.com
Tell Congress to Include Lawsuit Reforms as Part of Health Care Reform
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This morning, the Rock Island Argus has a great editorial calling for lawsuit reform measures as part of comprehensive federal health care legislation.
This
editorial points to lawsuit abuse as a major reason for skyrocketing
health care costs and even shortages of vaccines and life-saving
medical technologies:
Source: www.qconline.com
While the delays in the swine flu vaccine are being blamed by some politicians on "production delays," Scientific American has uncovered a larger truth. Fear of lawsuits has reduced the number of vaccine makers from 25 in the 1970s down to just five.
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This Bolingbrook Sun story asks "Can tort reform help save health care?"
Read more here...
Source: www.suburbanchicagonews.com
Bolingbrook Sun :: News :: Can tort reform help save health care?
Illinois Civil Justice League Are defensive medicine and malpractice insurance driving costs?" We say yes...read this Tribune story to see what they have to say:
Health care dispute: Are "defensive medicine" and malpractice insurance driving costs? -- chicagotri
Source: www.chicagotribune.com
In this Oct. 23, 2009 photo, Dr. James Wang, center, meets with a patient, left, and third-year Tufts medical student Khalida Itriyeva, right, in his office in Springfield, Mass. After he was sued for allegedly failing to quickly diagnose an appendicitis, Dr. ...
Illinois Civil Justice League Today's Wall Street Journal has a great piece on "Pay-to-play and the tort bar." Check it out here...
Source: online.wsj.com
The Wall Street Journal writes that pay-to-play pension fund schemes also impact securities litigation.
Illinois Civil Justice League LegalNewsline.com reports that, "House Republicans plan to offer an alternative to the Democrats' proposal for a national health care overhaul that contains tort reform, House Minority Leader John Boehner said Sunday."
Source: legalnewsline.com
Illinois Civil Justice League The Peoria Journal Star reports: "Drivers involved in an accident in Peoria are now able to get a copy of the police report online."
Source: www.pjstar.com
pjstar.com, your source for the latest breaking local news, sports, weather, business, jobs, real estate, shopping, health, travel, and entertainment in Peoria, IL.
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Can't afford a lawyer? In some cases, you might be able to do without one, now that the Will County Legal Self-Help Center is up and running. It's on the Internet.
Will County Chief Judge Gerald Kinney, County Board member John Anderson, D-Monee, and Circuit Court Clerk Pam McGuire explained the new free service during ...a presentation Tuesday morning at the Will County Office Building, 302 N. Chicago St., Joliet.Read More
Will County Chief Judge Gerald Kinney, County Board member John Anderson, D-Monee, and Circuit Court Clerk Pam McGuire explained the new free service during ...a presentation Tuesday morning at the Will County Office Building, 302 N. Chicago St., Joliet.Read More
Source: www.suburbanchicagonews.com
Beacon News :: Local News :: New legal site helps you help yourself in Will court
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Tiger Joyce, president of the American Tort Reform Association, writes: "Obama has quipped that his administration can 'walk and chew gum at the same time' — and, surely, it and the Congress can. So why can’t thoughtful health care legislation reduce both the rate of medical errors and groundless lawsuits?" http://www.politico.com/news/stories/100
Source: www.politico.com
In an Ideas piece, Joyce saysmedical error rates in U.S. haven’t changed substantively for decades.
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Source: www.suburbanchicagonews.com
News Sun :: News :: Court increases filing fees
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A new study on class action cy pres awards from the Northwestern Searle Center.... http://www.law.northwestern.edu/searlece
Source: www.law.northwestern.edu
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Illinois Civil Justice League A McLean County Medical Society-sponsored public forum to discuss national health care reform proposals will be 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the DoubleTree Hotel & Conference Center, 10 Brickyard Drive.
Source: www.pantagraph.com
BLOOMINGTON -- A McLean County Medical Society-sponsored public forum to discuss national health care reform proposals will be 6 to
Illinois Civil Justice League Common Good's Philip Howard has this commentary in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal about the need to reform America's medical liability system:
Source: online.wsj.com
In The Wall Street Journal, attorney Philip K. Howard writes that a few thousand trial lawyers have a lock on the Democratic Party and stand in the way of any legal reforms that could reduce the costs of defensive medicine and render the justice system more reliable and fair.
Illinois Civil Justice League The Washington Times writes that, "he trial lawyers lobby has been awash in debt and bleeding members - just as it embarks on a national campaign to block any clampdown on medical malpractice lawsuits as part of President Obama's health care overhaul."
Source: www.washingtontimes.com
The trial lawyers lobby has been awash in debt and bleeding members - just as it embarks on a national campaign to block any clampdown on medical malpractice lawsuits as part of President Obama's health care overhaul.
