Cyrus Dugger

Why don’t the doctors get mad?

From The Tortellini:

Why don't the doctors get mad?

Another state reporting that surprise, tort reform didn't have any impact on doctor's medical malpractice insurance premiums. After passing a $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages and other restrictions on med mal lawsuits, Georgia is now about to undertake more legislation--this time, at least, targeted at the actual problem, the insurance companies--to bring some relief to the docs, after discovering that six of the the state's top med mal insurers had jacked up premiums even further after the law passed in 2003, some by as much as a third. (keep reading)

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