Study Calls Medical Malpractice 'Crisis' Into Question

It was all a sham? You don't say!

"...Could it be that the so-called medical malpractice "crisis" that led our fearless state lawmakers to..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Medical Malpractice Suit Filed Against Lakeway Hospital

Facility charged in 2018 case

"...On April 10, Rawney (Ron) McVaney filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Lakeway..."

April 26, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Dr. Giggles

"...year) has cobbled together an endless stream of two-bit medical gags and splatter film conventions and come up with..."

Oct. 30, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dr. Smith's Patented Tort Reform

Putting the claim that limiting medical liability will save health care

"...the right of patients to sue incompetent or negligent medical professionals. Now he's trying to tack it onto the..."

Sept. 21, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Med-Mal Down, Doctor Shortage Up?

Tort reform was supposed to cure our ills. It hasn't worked.

"...According to the Texas Medical Association, the 2003 tort reforms they pushed so hard..."

Oct. 21, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith

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"...on our hands. The insurance lobby's argument that high malpractice premiums are a result of high jury awards has..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Column

The Operation Was Successful ...

The jury's still out on "tort reform" – but the courthouse door is closed

"...described in glowing terms. "Because of major reforms to medical liability laws that I worked with legislators to enact..."

Sept. 3, 2004 News Column by Michael King

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"...were rarely awarded, liability-insurance costs for businesses were minuscule, medical-malpractice insurance and claims were less than 1% of all..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Column

Against Tort Reform

"...were rarely awarded, liability-insurance costs for businesses were minuscule, medical-malpractice insurance and claims were less than 1% of all..."

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Proposition 12 Specifics

"...for "pain and suffering" are affected. But in many malpractice cases, "pain and suffering" are both very real elements..."

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Naked City

Are Texas doctors doing harm to truth and justice?

"...the Lege's already-enacted $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical-malpractice lawsuits and empower the Legislature to place similar caps..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Bills Grant Texas Doctors Legal Cover to Mislead Pregnant Women

Is the Lege giving doctors a license to lie?

"...eliminate "wrongful birth" as a cause of action in medical malpractice, effectively prohibiting patients from suing their physician for..."

April 14, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Tort Versus Thought

Is the tide of medical malpractice suits really a desert?

"...by Republicans saying that doctors are too afraid of medical malpractice suits to practice. To prove the point, Gov...."

April 30, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Sounding the Alarm on Texas' Nursing Home System

25% of the state's 1,200 long-term care centers have been cited for serious standard deficiencies

"...a certified nursing assistant – a foothold into the medical industry, which she hoped could support her and her..."

Oct. 20, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Page Two

Proposition 12 indicates the problems with Texas constitutional amendment process as well as the current administration's and legislative majority's cynical agenda.

"...threats of lawsuits accompanied by the ever-rising costs of malpractice insurance on the other have changed the focus of..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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"...Malpractice Suits Harm System..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Column

A Parliament of Experts

Did 'expert testimony' convict an innocent woman of murder?

"...an emergency room doctor, a pediatric intensive-care doctor, a medical examiner, and a child abuse specialist – testified that..."

Feb. 4, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Tort Reform Dangerous

"...tort reform would benefit from it, but victims of medical malpractice would most definitely not benefit. Malpractice lawsuits are..."

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Adiós! Don't Let the Door ...

A Quick Roundup of the Best and the Worst of the 78th Lege

"...old mean-spiritedness." -- Michael KingAdding Insult to Injury The medical malpractice/tort-reform bill (HB 4) threatened to crash when Sen...."

June 6, 2003 News Feature

Tort Deform at the House

Tort reform climbs the mountain -- and then gets pushed back down.

"...second day-and-night debate of HB 4, the fast-tracked omnibus medical malpractice/tort reform bill, when a point of order raised..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...One of the state's largest medical malpractice insurers plans to raise rates by 10% this..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Tort-Reform Folly

According to new report on state's tort-reform measures, Perry's promise that frivolous lawsuits and high medical-malpractice insurance rates for docs are down and that the recruitment of specialists is apparently on the rise are promises that haven't panned out

"...the legal process and to sue in cases of medical negligence (what tort reformers – read, insurance companies –..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Capitol Chronicle

The first 200 bills signed by Gov. Perry are a very mixed bag.

"...grew as a disfiguring hunch on the back of medical-malpractice reform. It was the latter, of course, that the..."

June 20, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls

"...Eppstein has been polling on behalf of the Texas Medical Association, the Texas Hospital Association, and the Texas Alliance..."

April 25, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Capitol Chronicle

Tort Deform gives business the gold mine, the rest of us the shaft.

"...Friday morning, the House approved HB 4, the omnibus tort-reform/medical malpractice bill, followed a sunrise later by HJR 3,..."

April 4, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Letters at 3AM

The Bush-Ashcroft Justice Department is invading our privates

"...2000, Bush ran on a platform that loudly supported medical privacy. He has said, "I believe privacy is a..."

March 19, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

CSI: Travis County

Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?

"...Bayardo, chief pathologist and administrator of the Travis Co. Medical Examiner's Office, is the correct cause – or if,..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Research Zedler

"...before placing such confidence in his criticism of the medical board. Rep. Zedler is well-known for taking contributions from..."

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"...by four lawyers about the medmal climate ["Study Calls Medical Malpractice 'Crisis' Into Question," News, March 18]. First of..."

March 25, 2005 Column

Easier to Be Taken In

"...by four lawyers about the medmal climate [“Study Calls Medical Malpractice 'Crisis' Into Question,” News, March 18]. First of..."

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