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Medical Malpractice
WEB WATCH: Medical Malpractice
BNA's Web Watch is prepared by Laura
Gordon-Murnane. Documents and Reports are arranged first by
federal government, state governments, international governments,
and nongovernment organizations. E-mail suggestions for future weekly
topics always welcome.
Federal Government
Congressional Testimony
Harming
Patient Access to Care: The Impact of Excessive Litigation Subcommittee
on Health (July 17, 2002 )
Whitehouse
President
to Call For Medical Liability Reform (January 16, 2003)
Policies
in Focus - President Calls for Medical Liability Reform (January
16, 2003)
Factsheet
(January 16, 2003)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Confronting
the New Health Care Crisis: Improving Health Care Quality and Lowering
Costs by Fixing Our Medical Liability System, (July 2002)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Special
Update on Medical Liability Crisis, (September 25, 2002)
Update
on the Medical Litigation Crisis: Not the Result of the "Insurance
Cycle" (September 25, 2002)
Nongovernment Organizations
American College of Surgeons
Statement to Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative
Law Committee on the Judiciary U.S. House of Representatives RE:
Oversight Hearing on Health Care Litigation Reform: Does
Limitless Litigation Restrict Access to Health Care? (June 2002)
Americans for Insurance Reform
Medical
Malpractice Insurance: Stable Losses/Unstable Rates in West Virginia
(January 2003)
Medical
Malpractice Insurance: Stable Losses/Unstable Rates: Introduction
and Summary of Findings (October 10, 2002)
American Health Care Association
Long
Term Care General Liability and Professional Liability Actuarial
Analysis (February 28, 2002)
American Medical Association
Medical Liability Crisis: A National View - AMA Analysis
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/395/crisisanalysis2.doc
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/395/crisismap1.pdf
Testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial
and Administrative Law, Does
Limitless Litigation Restrict Access to Health Care? (June 2002)
American Tort Reform Association
Medical
Liability Reform
Medical
Liability Reform—State Laws on Medical Liability (2002)
Center for Justice and Democracy
A
Short Guide to Understanding Today’s Medical Malpractice Insurance
“Crisis” (and Useful Questions to Ask) (September
25, 2002)
Premium
Deceit; The Failure of "Tort Reform" to Cut Insurance
Prices (1999)
Center for Medical Consumers
FIRST
DO NO HARM: A CONSUMER RESPONSE TO THE MEDICAL LOBBY’S CAMPAIGN
TO LIMIT THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF INJURED PATIENTS
Consumer
Advocates Fire Back at Medical and Insurance Industries for Malpractice
Crisis (January 2003)
Florida Hospital Association
Medical
Malpractice Analysis (November 7, 2002)
Institute of Medicine
Liability:
Patient-Centered and Safety-Focused, Nonjudicial Compensation
(November 2002)
Committee to Study Medical Professional Liability and the Delivery
of Obstetrical Care, Medical
Professional Liability and the Delivery of Obstetrical Care: Vol.
I (1989)
Professional
Liability and the Delivery of Obstetrical Care: Volume II, An Interdisciplinary
Review (1989)
Insurance Information Institute
Medical
Malpractice The Topic (January 2003)
Trends
in Medical Malpractice Insurance: Behind the Chaos by Dr. Robert
P. Hartwig
Kaiser Family Foundation
Comparison
of State Managed Care Liability Laws Key Characteristics of State
Managed Care Organization Liability Laws: Current Status and Experience
(August 2001)
Litigation Fairness Campaign
The
Institute for Legal Reform Malpractice Liability in West Virginia
(November 19, 2002)
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
Addressing
the Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis
National
Practitioner Data Bank
NPDB
Summary Report (current as of December 26, 2002)
HIPDB
Reports Submitted by State Agencies and Health Plans
HIPDB
Reports Submitted by Federal Entities
HIPDB
Reports on Organizations
New England Journal of Medicine
Patient
Safety: Views of Practicing Physicians and the Public on Medical
Errors N Engl J Med 2002; 347:1933-1940, Dec 12, 2002
Ohio State Medical Association
How
the new tort-reform law affects you
Public Citizen
Medical
Misdiagnosis: Challenging the Malpractice Claims of the Doctors'
Lobby (January 2003)
Stopping
Repeat Offenders: The Key to Cutting Medical Malpractice Costs
(September 2002)
West Virginia Medical Association
Key
Elements of Medical Liability Reform Legislation
Draft
Medical Liability Reform Legislation
State by State Tort Reform Measures
Part
1
Part
2
Texas Department of Insurance
Biennial
Report of the Texas Department of Insurance to the 78th Legislature
Texas Medical Association
TMA
Special Liability Study 2001 Update (April 8, 2002)
Court Opinions
SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION
Hospital
Has No Obligation to Police Doctor's Insurance, New Jersey Court
Decides (January 8, 2003)
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