Bitter Malpractice Fight Going to Voters
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Rivaling Bush vs. Kerry for bitterness, doctors and trial lawyers are squaring off this fall in an unprecedented four-state struggle over limiting malpractice awards. The volatile issue is in voters' hands and each side is desperate to win, spending millions of dollars to make their cases and portray the other side as greedy.
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TALLAHASSEE -- Doctors and lawyers have been warring for years over why medical malpractice insurance rates are so high and what to do about it.
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Political parties and civil rights activists have brought a wealth of lawsuits on voting issues before the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential election even gets under way.
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Florida voters approved this month a three-strikes constitutional amendment unlike any other state&#39;s - an amendment aimed not at killers and thieves but at doctors who foul up.
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It&#39;s a matter on the minds of many Americans and arguably the top domestic issue in the presidential election. With medical costs and premiums rising, health insurance is influencing how people
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The bitter battle for seats in Congress headed into its final showdown last night, with Republicans struggling to hang onto their threadbare
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The dispute over Indiana's voter ID law that is headed to the Supreme Court in January is as much a partisan political drama as a legal tussle.
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President Bush launches an uphill  battle on Wednesday to limit medical malpractice lawsuit awards  that he says drive up health care costs, seeking to fulfill a  popular re-election promise.
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In Maryland, requests from state's largest malpractice insurer to raise premiums an average of 41 percent has triggered a fierce debate.
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Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. yesterday said his staff is drafting a medical-malpractice reform plan that will be reviewed by Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House
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Three amendments on malpractice suits and patient safety passed, but doctors and lawyers remain at odds. By LISA GREENE, Times Staff Writer.
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A doctor and his patient are facing off in a medical malpractice trial that has tongues wagging as much about the players as about what they are fighting over: Botox.
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Advocates for the mental ill are trying to secure voting rights while concern mounts about the risks of voting by people with conditions like dementia.
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New laws, new voting procedures and court fights that have changed the rules in some states may mean added confusion at the polls on Tuesday. With memories of deadlocked Florida still fresh, the lawyers are plentiful and busy this year. Here is a voter's guide to ways the partisan legal skirmishing could affect voters on Election Day.
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As Washington area residents head to the polls, months into a heated primary campaign, health care remains a top voter concern. A recent Washington Post-ABC national survey showed health care ranked third (after the economy and the war in Iraq) among Democratic voters; among Republicans, health c...
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Some key players in the legislative battle over medical-liability reform support attacking soaring malpractice-insurance premiums by making it harder for insurance companies to raise their rates.
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LAYING DOWN THE LAW: Florida voters this month approved a first-in-the-nation law to revoke the licenses of doctors who have three malpractice judgments against them.