The Protecting Access to Care Act seeks to impose a cap of $250,000 for non-economic damages for every person in every medical negligence case in the United States. Special to NJ.com By: Michael ...

For more than 40 years throughout the United States, various health care and insurance industries, backed by big business, have worked hard to push what they call “tort reform,” particu… ...

GOP eyes medical tort reform President Donald Trump has said tort reform is a priority of his administration.

Traditional “tort reform” — merely limiting noneconomic damages — is not sufficient to end defensive medicine, because doctors could still be liable when they did nothing wrong.

Nobody wants medical tort reform more than me. As a surgeon in private practice for over 30 years, I feel the sting of exorbitant malpractice insurance premiums. I hear tales in the hospital ...

While various states have taken action to control medical malpractice insurance rates, efforts to pass federal reforms to cap noneconomic damages in lawsuits have repeatedly failed—and experts ...

A new lawsuit claims an insurance company involved in a high profile medical malpractice case helped influence Iowa lawmakers to pass tort reform last session.

In the half-dozen states with most medical device patenting that went through reforms in the sample period, tort reform laws decreased innovation by roughly 36 patents a year.