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- » Letter: When liability rests on guidelines, care is needed in defining terms - May 13, 2013
- » Qualifications of medical expert witnesses come under fire - May 13, 2013
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- » Brief: Doctor wins in expert witness case against medical society - April 29, 2013
- » Ruling redefines state take of medical liability awards - April 22, 2013
- » Doctors win first safe harbor against ACA use in liability suits - April 15, 2013
- » Column: An advocate for patients and physicians, state by state - April 15, 2013
- » Court upholds same-specialty expert witness requirement - April 3, 2013
- » Column: Medical charting errors can drive patient liability suits - March 25, 2013
- » 2 state court rulings rebuff challenges on liability caps - March 20, 2013
- » Physician liability: When an overdose brings a lawsuit - March 4, 2013
- » Physicians entangled in tainted drugs lawsuits - Feb. 11, 2013
- » New tort reform law a “tremendous win” for doctors - Feb. 4, 2013
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- » Unresolved liability suits cast long shadow over physicians - Jan. 23, 2013
- » Surgical errors: In ORs, “never events” occur 80 times a week - Jan. 21, 2013
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- » Hospitals expected to benefit two ways from Medicaid expansion - Dec. 10, 2012
- » Ruling upholds role of medical liability screening panels - Dec. 3, 2012
- » Neurosurgeons test real skills on virtual brains - Nov. 19, 2012
- » Column: The rise and fall of medical liability premiums - Nov. 5, 2012
- » Medical liability payouts for surgeries vary widely by state - Oct. 29, 2012
- » Liability premium relief good for doctors, unsettling for insurers - Oct. 22, 2012
- » Column: “End-run” lawsuits can blindside physicians - Oct. 22, 2012
- » Court ends long battle by upholding state liability cap - Oct. 19, 2012
- » Appeals court upholds often-cited medical liability damages cap - Sept. 24, 2012
- » Court refuses to decide constitutionality of state damages cap - Sept. 10, 2012
- » Patient safety law protects some documents in court case - Aug. 29, 2012
- » Medical liability: Court strikes down noneconomic damages cap - Aug. 13, 2012
- » Column: Ruling on contributory liability defense could expose physicians to more lawsuits - July 23, 2012
- » The rise of sky-high jury awards - July 16, 2012
- » EHR use linked to fewer medical liability claims - July 16, 2012
- » Legal risks of going paperless - July 10, 2012
- » Checklist aims to ease burden of disclosing medical errors - July 6, 2012
- » Fear of punitive response to hospital errors lingers - July 3, 2012
- » Expert witness need not have same specialty as doctor defendant - July 2, 2012
- » Cause of negligence not necessary for liability suit to proceed - June 11, 2012
- » Medical liability costs seen as a drain on innovation - June 4, 2012
- » Specialty closely linked to success of medical liability actions - May 30, 2012
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- » Missouri high court upholds damages cap, but another challenge remains - May 11, 2012
- » Liability defense costly, even when doctors win - April 20, 2012
- » Pilot not entitled to noneconomic damages after HIV status disclosed - April 16, 2012
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- » Louisiana high court upholds medical liability damages cap - April 2, 2012
- » House passes IPAB repeal, medical liability reform bill - April 2, 2012
- » Column: Screening panels in medical liability cases under scrutiny - March 26, 2012
- » Alabama doctors can be sued for death of unborn, pre-viable child - March 12, 2012
- » Hospitals try new tack: Refer injured patients to attorneys - March 5, 2012
- » Column: Family may use secret recording in medical negligence suit - Feb. 27, 2012
- » Defensive medicine seeping into physician training, study says - Feb. 15, 2012
- » Arkansas court rejects expert witness provision in medical liability cases - Feb. 6, 2012
- » Column: It's fiscally irresponsible not to address liability reform - Feb. 6, 2012
- » Column: Doctor can be sued for emotional distress despite lack of physical negligence - Jan. 30, 2012
- » Discussion: Doctors still face harsh medical liability realities - Jan. 23, 2012
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