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  • OP-ED: Tort Reform Demonstrates a Failed Effort
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    OP-ED: Tort Reform Demonstrates a Failed Effort

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours August 29, 2012March 28, 2025

    Alex Winslow writes in an OP-ED at Statesman.Com about how the record demonstrates Governor Perry’s claims that legal restrictions on patients’ right to sue would benefit patients at large, make for better practice of medicine and lower health care costs has resulted in just the opposite. Here’s the story: Taking…

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    Injured by a Doctor? You’ll likely deal with the secretive Medical Board instead of open court

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours May 14, 2012March 28, 2025

    Fox 4 in Dallas did a great story on the Texas Medical Board and their contribution to physician discipline since tort reform in 2003.  According to the report serious disciplinary actions are down and the time taken to conduct investigations has risen.  Further, Doctor confidentiality and secrecy is maintained until…

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    Tort Reform has not Increased the Number of Doctors in Texas

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours May 4, 2012March 28, 2025

    Anew study by David A. Hyman, Charles Silver, and Bernard Black shows that Texas Tort Reform measures have not increased the number of doctors in Texas since 2003. “Does state tort reform affect physician supply? Tort reformers certainly believe so. Before Texas adopted tort reform in 2003, proponents claimed that…

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    Texas Appellate Courts are More Likely to Reverse Plaintiff’s Judgments

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours May 2, 2012March 28, 2025

    The Dallas Morning News reports that a soon-to-be-released study shows Texas Appellate Courts reverse judgments for plaintiffs with alarming regularity, and at a dramatically higher rate than judgments for defendants: “The study, conducted by two appellate lawyers at Haynes and Boone, found the Texas appellate judges have an overall reversal…

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    Federal Judge in Texas Upholds Med Mal Damages Cap

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours April 26, 2012March 28, 2025

    Originally posted at the Dallas Morning News: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/health-care/2012/03/28/u-s-judge-upholds-texas-cap-on-medical-malpractice-awards/ By MARK CURRIDEN The Texas Lawbook mark.curriden@texaslawbook.net Published: 27 March 2012 08:55 PM A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Texas law limiting noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases to $250,000 is constitutional. The decision, applauded by tort reform advocates and denounced…

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  • No Better Care, Thanks to Tort Reform
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    No Better Care, Thanks to Tort Reform

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours October 27, 2011March 28, 2025

    Published in The Texas Tribune by guest columnist, Charles M. Silver In 2006, Dr. Howard Marcus wrote that Texas’ 2003 tort reform statute sparked an “amazing turnaround” in which doctors came to Texas in droves, instead of leaving the state as they had before. He was doubly wrong. Texas neither…

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