Tort reform = lower malpractice rates:
Texas’ largest medical liability insurance provider said Monday it will cut its rates by 5 percent starting in January.
No tort reform = soaring malpractice rates:
Physicians in a northwest Maryland county plan to halt non-emergency surgeries for at least two weeks to protest a 33 percent increase in malpractice insurance premiums.







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