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• Michigan Auto Accident Insurance Industry Seeking to Protect Profits Over People

  David Mittleman | November 02, 2011 9:02 AM | 3 CommentsLansing, MI

  Over the past six weeks, I have blogged about some proposed changes to Michigan’s No-Fault insurance laws. The current version of the bill, HB 4936, has two major anti-consumer components....

• More Unwarranted Endorsements for the HPV Vaccine

  David Carney | November 01, 2011 12:39 PM | 3 CommentsCentral Pennsylvania, PA

  A federal advisory committee recently endorsed the idea that both boys and young men should be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus that can result from sexual activity. The panel, the...

• Girl Who Lost Limbs While Waiting for Medical Care Settles for $10 Million

  David Mittleman | October 31, 2011 8:46 AM | 3 CommentsLansing, MI

  The family of Malyia Jeffers has settled for $10 million with a Methodist hospital, after Malyia's arms and legs had to be partially amputated after waiting for five hours to be treated by emergency...

• Bridging The Medical Malpractice Rift Between Physicians And Attorneys

  Michael Bogdanow | October 27, 2011 3:56 PM | 3 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  Not long ago, I was sitting in a physician’s office - a physician who is also a close friend - when I realized I was reading a tort-reform poster on the wall in his lobby. I discussed with him...

• Did You Know... Trucking Companies Are Meeting In December At Trucking Lawsuit Defense Conference?

  Brett Emison | October 24, 2011 11:25 AM | 3 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Many of America's trucking corporations will meet up with other corporate executives and defense lawyers at a large conference at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Florida in December. At this...

• Flu Shot Myths Debunked

  David Mittleman | October 22, 2011 10:00 AM | 3 CommentsLansing, MI

  It's getting to be that time of year again where more people are sniffling and coughing...and we all know what that means, flu season. You may be trying to decide whether or not to get a flu shot...

• Get Behind Safe Teen Driving

  Mark Bello | October 17, 2011 1:53 PM | 3 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI

  National Teen Driver Safety Week is October 16 – 22, 2011. It was established in 2007 to raise awareness and seek solutions to unnecessary teen deaths on the roadways. The week is a great time...

• Breed Specific Legislation is Never an Answer

  Randi Milgram | October 17, 2011 1:21 PM | 3 CommentsCentral Pennsylvania, PA

  Breed-specific legislation (BSL) is an extremely troubling type of law, pervasive in this country and around the world. These laws ban ownership of a certain type of dog, or could place certain...

• Letter to "Super Committee" Opposing Federal Tort Reform Proposals

  Andrew Cochran | October 12, 2011 10:00 AM | 3 CommentsVoices

  I've delivered a nine-page letter to the office of each of the 12 members of Congress who sit on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, known as the Super Committee or supercommittee....

• Debt Reduction "Supercommittee" Should Ignore CBO's Guesswork on "Tort Reform"

  Andrew Cochran | October 06, 2011 9:14 AM | 3 CommentsVoices

  The AMA and other medical groups have advised the Joint Congressional Committee on Deficit Reduction (the supercommittee) that federally imposed limits on lawsuits over medical malpractice could...