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	<title>LegalNewsWatch &#187; Medical Malpractice</title>
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		<title>Bush Malpractice Bill Shields Drugmakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Bush went to Illinios Wednesday to show his support for a medical malpractice bill that he claims will curb some of the high costs of health care in America and improve the quality of care. But what he didn&#8217;t tell the American public is how the same bill would prevent consumers from seeking punitive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Medical Malpractice Awards are 30% Smaller in California</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A California law that caps non-economic awards in medical malpractice lawsuits has cut payments in such lawsuits by 30 percent, according to a Rand Corporation study released on Monday.
Researchers found that because of the limits on attorney&#8217;s fees contained in the California Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, net recoveries actually realized by these plaintiffs were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Group Says Medical Malpractice &#8216;Crisis&#8217; was Fabricated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2003 02:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, says a General Accounting Office study shows that the American Medical Association and other medical provider groups manufactured a &#8220;crisis&#8221; of access to care, in order to change the medical malpractice insurance system.
The GAO report found that the volume of medical care delivered to patients in AMA-designated &#8220;crisis states&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Passes Bill to Limit Medical Malpractice Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House passed a bill sets caps for medical malpractice awards, such as compensation for loss of a limb or sight, at $250,000. The bill also sets caps on punitive damages &#8211; those that punish a physician for serious mistakes &#8211; would be limited to twice the amount of economic damages awarded or $250,000, whichever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$4M LASIK Award Falls After Witness Recants</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Superior Court Judge Kenneth Lee suspended the largest reported verdict in a suit involving laser-corrective eye surgery and ordered a new trial after Dr. Jeffrey Machat, a key plaintiff&#8217;s expert, said his testimony was wrong. Steve Post, a former commercial airline pilot, was awarded $4 million last May after alleging that doctors at University Physicians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Study, 35% of Physicians say they or a family member has experienced a medical error</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2003 08:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine says 35 percent of physicians and 42 percent of the general public say that they had experienced a medical error themselves, or had one affect a family member. The study is the first effort to quantify the publicï¿½s experience with medical mistakes as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government agrees to pay $3.5 million to settle malpractice lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2002 02:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SHIPROCK, N.M. &#8212; The federal government has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Northern Navajo Medical Center. The lawsuit alleged that a series of medical mistakes left 4-year-old Eric Borg brain-damaged and quadriplegic.
 (via The Associated Press)
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		<title>New Law Sets A Cap On Medical Malpractice Claims</title>
		<link>http://www.legalnewswatch.com/15/new-law-sets-a-cap-on-medical-malpractice-claims</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2002 00:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jackson, Miss.&#8211;Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove attempting to end the state&#8217;s healthcare crisis signed a bill that sets caps for medical malpractice claims. Multimillion-dollar verdicts and skyrocketing premiums have driven away insurers and doctors.
The bill sets caps for pain-and-suffering damages in medical malpractices cases at $500,000, increasing to $750,000 by 2001 and $1 million by 2017. [...]]]></description>
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