In an op-ed in Pennsylvania’s Daily Local News, retired family physician Robert Poole describes what it’s like to have a target painted on your back in a trial lawyers’ free fire zone — in other words, what it’s like to be a doctor in Pennsylvania today.
Today, the pressing issue in the well-heeled suburb of West […]

How would you describe the medical liability climate in a state where one out of every two doctors has recently been sued? That’s Pennsylvania, where almost 12,000 out of the 25,000 full time physicians were hit with medical liability lawsuits between 2002 and 2007. Most observers would consider it a crisis, but trial lawyers think […]

An Arizona law requiring that expert witnesses in medical malpractice trials actually be experts in the field they’re testifying about has been struck down in appellate court.
The law had clearly sought to end the abuse of “professional witness” doctors who make a lucrative career testifying in medical malpractice trials at the behest of trial lawyer […]

This item on medical tort reform is a prime example of the “balanced” approach taken by the Center for American Progress (CAP), which carefully examines both sides of an issue and invariably agrees in every particular with the trial bar.
The critical issue in medical malpractice today is whether or not to put caps on non-economic […]