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The Pandemic Liability Protection Act provides COVID-19 liability protections for health care providers, businesses, non-profits, religious institutions, and schools that made good-faith efforts to follow safety protocols during the course of the public health emergency declared by Gov. Greg Abbott.
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AUSTIN – On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Pandemic Liability Protection Act into law. The Act went into effect immediately because Senate Bill 6 was passed by both chambers by supermajorities.
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Usually, it’s members of law enforcement who shout “Open up!” (and “It’s the police!”) when they want to make an arrest. But these are unusual times.
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AUSTIN – The Pandemic Liability Protection Act has passed both chambers of the Texas Legislature by supermajorities.
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AUSTIN – Even though more than a dozen states have already taken measures to protect health care workers from possible COVID-19 litigation, Texas has yet to do so.
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Two weeks ago, we opined, only half-jokingly, that one of the biggest differences between conservatives and liberals – and between Republicans and Democrats – is that the former look for things that are broken, so they can fix them, and the latter do the opposite.
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AUSTIN – Since the courts were apparently no help, those wishing to inflate Texas’ medical malpractice cap on non-economic damages are now turning to the state legislature.
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How tort reform helped ignite the Texas boom.
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Obama Care was touted as a way to make healthcare more affordable and accessible, but results have been mostly the opposite.
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A recent study found Texas is one of the best states for physicians to practice medicine, a high ranking made possible in part due to the passage of tort reform measures in 2003, says one expert.
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By DAVID YATES The “gatekeepers” to civil justice system, plaintiff attorneys, are losing incentive to practice because of tort reform, according to a new study – a report furnished by, in the opinion of one man, two “left wing academics who never met a lawsuit they didn’t like.” On June 2 the American Bar Foundation sent out a press release promoting a new book: Tort Reform, Plaintiffs’ Lawyers, and Access to Justice, essentially a study examining more than 20 years of “tort reform activity” i
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The “gatekeepers” to civil justice system, plaintiff attorneys, are losing incentive to practice because of tort reform, according to a new study – a report furnished by, in the opinion of one man, two “left wing academics who never met a lawsuit they didn’t like.”
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All across the vast state of Texas, civil filings continue to fade a little more each year in smaller counties, even in Jefferson County, a so called “judicial hellhole” in some circles.
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An opinion piece issued by Alex Winslow of Texas Watch entitled "Spin-doctoring by doctors" (Dec. 1) is making its way around the state. The op/ed makes the absurd and easily refutable claim that "growth in (the number of Texas) physicians tracks population increases."
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Opelt In spite of a recent report calling the Texas reform of medical liability litigation a "failed experiment," a group of medical professionals in the state still maintains the reforms are a success.
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Hinojosa (D-McAllen) Although a pair of "anti-tort reform" bills recently died in a state House committee, legal watchdog groups from across the Lone Star State are prepared to "stand strong" and fight future bills engineered to unravel tort reform laws.
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Shuffield The "judicial hellhole" label tort reform supporters have slapped Jefferson County with may be starting to peel, as a recent upsurge in defense verdicts and decrease in personal injury filings has tipped the scales in Lady Justice's hand.
