Jilek believes a critical shortage of doctors in New Mexico is related to the state’ s medical malpractice environment, where liability insurance premiums for providers have risen far above the costs ...

The Michigan House Judiciary Committee met last week and passed HB 6085, which increases the current medical malpractice caps, makes death cases automatically qualify for the “upper” cap and exempts ...

About two-thirds of New Mexico physicians are considering leaving the state, according to the results of a survey conducted ...

In December, 10 Investigates told you about a push to change this part of Florida’s Wrongful Death Act, which limits who can sue over a death from medical malpractice. If you are 25 or older, ...

The New Mexico Medical Malpractice Act has been at the center of a contentious debate for at least five years, when an overhaul of the law significantly raised the caps ...

But there is one solution that will simultaneously increase access to care, reduce costs, increase quality of care and attract thousands of physicians to the state: no-fault medical malpractice, ...

Florida senators Monday began moving forward with a proposal that would make major changes in the state's medicalmalpractice laws, including limiting pain-and-suffering damages in lawsuits against ...

A California voter initiative to raise the pain-and-suffering damages cap in medical malpractice cases from $250,000 to $1.1 million has qualified for the November ballot, according to a Los Angeles ...

Springfield, Ill. | Illinois' new medical malpractice law brings a big shake-up for the medical and insurance industries in many ways other than limiting the amount of money people can collect in ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Floridians suing over medical malpractice could soon see caps on how much money their pain and suffering is worth. A bill to add those limits cleared its first hurdle in the state ...

Across all physician specialties, restrictive medical malpractice noneconomic damages caps of $250,000 were associated with a 20.2 percent reduction in award size in malpractice cases from 1985 to ...

Florida leads the nation in Affordable Care Act enrollment and, if the enhanced premium tax subsidies people rely on to help ...