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A report from the non-profit watchdog group Texas Watch says “tort reform” there has changed the state’s legal system so that it “perverts the rule of law into an instrument for the moneyed and powerful, as well as divorces it from any concept of justice.”

On August 16 in Fresno, a three-judge panel of California’s Fifth District Court of Appeal heard arguments why the state’s MICRA (Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975) law limiting compensation for medical negligence should be overturned.

Steven Olsen was a bright 2-year-old when medical negligence left him profoundly brain damaged. Two decades later, his parents remain potent advocates for correcting California’s $250,000 cap on human suffering.

A major New York obstetrics facility reduced its annual malpractice expenses by 90 percent after taking steps to improve patient safety.

Washington Post: The cap on non-economic damages would rise from $2 million to $2.95 million over the next 20 years under a bill that’s been sent to Virginia’s governor.

A New York Times report says federal agencies value a life at between $6 million and $9 million. California law values some lives at no more than $250,000…if they are killed by medical negligence.

A Harvard School of Public Health study often cited as evidence of abundant “frivolous” suits actually found “portraits of a malpractice system that is stricken with frivolous litigation are overblown.”