Posts tagged tort reform

• Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009

  Karl Truman | May 11, 2009 4:39 PM | 5 CommentsLouisville, KY Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009 was introduced in February of this year. The act proposes that pre-dispute arbitration agreements will not be enforceable if it requires the arbitration of...

• Indiana Medical Malpractice Law Slashes Verdict

  Karl Truman | October 26, 2009 2:07 PM | 1 CommentLouisville, KY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A woman died of complications from a mechanical bowel obstruction that had perforated; the woman's estate blamed her death on the hospital fo rtemporarily misplacing a radiological film that would...

• Nevada Re-Evaluates Its Limits on Medical Malpractice Damages

  Karl Truman | April 24, 2009 5:32 PM | 1 CommentLouisville, KY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In 2004 Nevada passed a law that capped punitive damages to $350,000 in medical malpractice cases. The bill was part of the “Keep our Doctors in Nevada Act” in which supporters claimed...