It's a bit alarming to hear doctors say their practices -- and, therefore, access to quality health care -- are being threatened by the cost of swelling medical malpractice insurance. The health-care ...

News that The Doctors Company is spending $1.3 billion to buy ProAssurance and take the specialty medical insurer private could be a sign of more consolidation among companies in the business of ...

Opinion: Hospital leader says New Mexico’s malpractice rules are pushing physicians out and putting rural patient care at risk ...

In its current form, Chandler said her bill would cap punitive damages at the same amounts that state law currently caps ...

Georgia physicians are suffering from two ailments at the same time. On the one hand, they face the threat of frivolous malpractice lawsuits requiring them to practice defensive medicine. To protect ...

Lawmakers have begun filing bills seeking to end the practice of beginning almost all malpractice lawsuits with the threat of ...

A group convened by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to come to an agreement on changing the state’s medical malpractice law was ...

Pat Jilek can’t find a doctor. When the former train conductor and railway safety representative retired in 2022, he and his ...

Tomorrow is the day that Cary Brown's next medical malpractice insurance bill comes due. It may also be the day he decides whether he can afford to maintain his practice. Like thousands of other ...

I urge the Legislature to change the medical malpractice laws that make practicing medicine in New Mexico unattractive to physicians this legislative session.

We should change the standard of proof required to get punitive damages. The tough criminal law standard is “beyond a reasonable doubt.” As juror, if you’re as sure of guilt as you would be to make a ...

OLYMPIA -- A state program designed to help doctors find medical malpractice insurance is being terminated because of lack of interest, the state insurance commissioner's office said yesterday. The ...