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News Release
1/10/2005
CONTACT Douglas Heller (310) 392-0522 ext. 309
GE Medical Protective Raised Docs' Rates 90% Despite 56% Operating Profit from 2000-2004
Santa Monica, CA -- Teaming up to challenge the near doubling of medical malpractice insurance premiums by GE Medical Protective, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut State Medical Society (CSMS) and the Connecticut Trial Lawyers...
News Release
1/5/2005
CONTACT Carmen Balber (310) 392-0522 x324 or Douglas Heller x309
Santa Monica, CA -- President Bush's claim today that a medical malpractice damage cap lowered doctors' premiums in California is erroneous, said the nonprofit, nonpartisan Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR). Malpractice premiums rose 450% after a damage cap was imposed in California in 1975 and did not fall until a 1988 voter-...
News Release
1/4/2005
CONTACT Jamie Court - 310-392-0522 x327
Santa Monica, CA -- The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights made public today an internal memo attributed to GOP pollster Frank Luntz that outlines the best messages for Republicans to use to sell the American public on "lawsuit abuse reform," based on extensive focus groups. President Bush is likely to use this language in Illinois...
News Release
12/15/2004
CONTACT Douglas Heller, (310) 392-0522 ext. 309
Pharmaceutical and Insurance Reforms Could Save System Billions, Medical Liability Limits Won't Help
Santa Monica, CA -- President Bush will ignore the real causes of skyrocketing healthcare costs, such as high drug prices and unregulated insurance premiums, during his economic summit today because he has received $786,262 from drug companies...
News Release
10/27/2004
CONTACT Douglas Heller, (310) 392-0522 ext. 309
Smoking Gun Document Exposes Insurance Industry Lies
Santa Monica, CA -- The nation's largest medical malpractice insurer, GE Medical Protective, has admitted that medical malpractice caps on damage awards and other limitations on recoveries for injured patients will not lower physicians' premiums.
The insurer's revelation was made to the...
Feature
10/25/2004
Consumer Watchdog
GE Medical Protective Document Reveals Caps Don't Work
GE Medical Protective, the nation's largest medical malpractice insurer, formally filed this document and data with the Texas Department of Insurance after the state enacted severe limits on non-economic damages for medical malpractice claims
Feature
9/29/2004
Consumer Watchdog
Proposal Would Restrict Rights of Injured Patients
FTCR concludes that Amendment 3 will (1) dramatically interfere with the right of injured patients in Florida to hire a lawyer to protect them; (2) encourage reckless and dangerous conduct by health care providers; (3) not lower the price of medical malpr
News Release
9/29/2004
CONTACT Harvey Rosenfield - 310-392-0522
Special Interest Measure Will Endanger Patients, Increase Taxes
Amendment 3 will endanger the health of Floridians and increase costs to taxpayers, a national consumer organization concluded in a policy analysis of the proposal on the Florida ballot in November. Download FTCR's analysis.
The California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and...
News Release
7/20/2004
CONTACT Jamie Court - 310-392-0522 x327
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights today said Vice President Dick Cheney is lying to the American public by claiming that capping what juries can give to innocent victims of medical malpractice will lower health insurance premiums.
"America spends more on dog and cat food each year than all medical malpractice payouts combined,"...
News Release
7/13/2004
CONTACT Consumer Watchdog
Despite Severe Limits on Victims' Rights, California Insurers Continue Push For Higher Doctors' Premiums
Santa Monica, CA -- A new survey by the Rand Corporation found that the most significant impact of California's 29 year old medical malpractice caps law falls on patients and families who are severely injured or killed as a result of medical...
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