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 ...

A new report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a San Francisco-based think tank, ranks the states on their medical-malpractice and tort liability policies and indicates where each state has ...

The soaring rate of inflation has focused the attention of most Americans on higher prices for essentials such as food and gasoline, but increases in health care costs may not be far behind unless ...

LITTLE ROCK (Talk Business) - — Supporters of an amendment that would authorize casinos in Boone, Miller and Washington counties submitted 92,120 signatures Friday (July 8), while supporters of a ...

CHICAGO, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- With the approach of the second anniversary of medical tort reform later this month, Medicus Insurance Company today officially launched its professional medical ...

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri House of Representatives passed medical tort reform Wednesday that would cap "pain and suffering" damages recovered in court at $350,000. The vote was 94-61. Medical tort ...

A recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal has clarified the scope of the tort of “intrusion upon seclusion” first recognized by the same court in Jones v. Tsige in 2012. In Hopkins v. Kay, a ...

TULSA, OK -- Some say the sweeping reform bill doesn't go far enough to fix a problem doctors say is driving up healthcare bills. They believe there can't be real reform without re-writing medical ...

After debate that went well into the night, a heavily amended tort reform bill passed the House on Tuesday 164-32. House Bill 1802, which as passed contains nearly 50 pages of amendments, will now go ...

As part of standard patient protocol, doctors inform women of the risks of pregnancy. But there is one exception to this standard: stillbirth. University of Arkansas law professor Jill Wieber Lens ...