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News Release
10/27/2011
Posted by Harvey Rosenfield
New York City, NY – The author of California’s insurance regulatory reform law testified in New York City today that insurance rate regulation is key to preventing medical malpractice insurance companies from price gouging doctors and preserving consumer access to health care.
California voters enacted insurance reform...
News Release
10/6/2011
Posted by Carmen Balber
Twenty-one major consumer and patient safety groups from around the country, whose memberships represent many millions of Americans, sent a letter today to the co-chairs of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction expressing strong opposition to any proposals that would limit the legal rights of patients injured by medical malpractice....
News Story
7/22/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A proposal to end the debt ceiling stalemate calls for abolishing a long-term-care program passed as part of the Affordable Care Act and institute medical professional liability insurance reforms.
The plan advanced by a bipartisan "Gang of Six" identifies medical liability reforms as part of budget savings, but a...
News Release
7/20/2011
Posted by Carmen Balber
Washington DC – A deficit reduction plan floated Tuesday by the “Gang of Six” senators would ask the Judiciary committee to find an “unspecified” amount of savings from medical malpractice reform, presumably by limiting the legal rights of patients injured by medical negligence. The nonprofit advocacy group Consumer...
News Story
7/20/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
Consumer advocacy group Consumer Watchdog is doubtful the Senate “Gang of Six” plan's call for medical malpractice reform would save actually money, saying “evidence suggests that malpractice liability limits are more likely to increase costs for taxpayers.” The proposal unveiled Tuesday requires the Senate Judiciary...
News Story
7/20/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
A consumer organization is challenging a bipartisan deficit-cutting proposal that would give the Senate Judiciary Committee six months to report medical malpractice legislation.
The Gang of Six floated a $3.7 trillion deficit-reduction blueprint Tuesday that requires Congress to start looking for savings immediately. The blueprint includes...
News Release
4/6/2011
Posted by Carmen Balber
Washington, DC – Insurance reform, not malpractice liability limits, held down doctors’ malpractice premiums in California said Consumer Watchdog today before a Congressional hearing on H.R. 5, a bill modeled on California law that would take away the rights of patients injured by medical negligence. Limits on patient rights failed...
News Story
3/24/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
ALBANY, NY — As New York lawmakers strive to complete the state budget by April 1, one of the most contentious battles involves whether to include a cap on medical malpractice payments that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has proposed with the support of the state’s hospital industry.
The measure would limit damages paid by doctors and...
News Release
2/17/2011
Posted by Doug Heller
Santa Monica, CA – California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has called on insurance companies that sell medical malpractice coverage to medical providers such as doctors, hospitals and clinics to lower premiums that appear to be excessive. The nonprofit Consumer Watchdog applauded the Commissioner, noting that if the insurers did...
News Story
2/17/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Medical malpractice insurance rates might be too high because some insurers are spending as little as 2 or 3 percent of premiums to pay out claims, according to the California Department of Insurance.
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said in a statement Thursday that insurers should reduce rates paid by doctors, surgeons,...
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