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  • Myths of Tort Reform in the Health Care Industry Dispelled
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    Myths of Tort Reform in the Health Care Industry Dispelled

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours June 26, 2015March 28, 2025

    While the insurance industry succeeded in convincing legislatures on over half the states that “tort reform” would improve overall health care to the individual care recipients, the notion that doctors would gravitate to practicing “defensive medicine”,  prescribing unneeded tests, procedures, and medications to avoid being sued, has been dispelled by…

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    Tort Reform in Texas Reduces Likelyhood of Ebola Lawsuits

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours October 30, 2014March 28, 2025

    As the recent Ebola scare seems to have subsided, we have a rest from the outcries of many onlookers who question the handling of such serious cases and focus on need for astute measures to prevent an outbreak such as is running rampant in west Africa. But it is unlikely…

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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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  • 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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