Commentary
California
California Health Care: Learning from history for a healthier future
After folding on ABX 1 1, the governor now tries his hand at the state’s dwindling budget with desperate ideas to rescind tax credits and request more federal funds. As for health care, the legislature’s “new” approach is incremental change. There are few winning hands thus far. The publicity and ...
Business & Economics
Is N.C. a ‘sucker’ state?
A new report says North Carolina is a “sucker” because its legal climate is ripe for greedy lawyers seeking a payday. The report released Tuesday by the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco ranked each state’s tort-system using three measures, reports Titan Barksdale. Researchers at the institute say that although ...
Business & Economics
New study from PRI further documents economic performance tied directly to health of legal system
PRI’s Dr. Lawrence McQuillan joins AJP in this exclusive interview to discuss the new methodologies behind the 2008 Update to the US Tort Liability Index, originally released in 2006.
Commentary
Calls to Inaction? Three New Books on Health Reform
During 2007, some new books on health reform offered the same old message of single-payer, government-monopoly health care. Others offered market-based solutions but, unfortunately, rely too much on “top-down” technical innovation instead of “bottom-up” consumer preference to improve American health care. Three books not only show the wide spectrum of ...
Business & Economics
Report praises Colorado’s tort laws
A ranking released Tuesday says Colorado has the best tort laws in the nation. The ranking by the Pacific Research Institute of San Francisco compared the legal climates of each state in a report titled “U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report.” But the report classified Colorado as “salvageable” because of ...
Business & Economics
Illinois, NY among usual tort suspects in PRI study
Legal Newsline.com, March 11, 2008 Madison-St. Clair Record (IL), March 11, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO — Florida ranks worst in two key litigation-risk factors for business but will likely improve in future thanks to recent tort-reform measures, a nationwide study revealed today. The Pacific Research Institute’s 2008 U.S. Tort Liability Index ...
Business & Economics
Legal Costs, Driving Out Economic Growth
The Pacific Research Institute has just released its latest study on the civil litigation climates in each of the states, “U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report.” Indexwise, good news for North Dakota, bad news for Florida. The study takes a twofold approach toward assessing a state’s tort climate — its ...
California
California’s Convenient Clinics: Some Win, Some Lose, All Change
The Sacramento Business Journal (subscribers only) has surveyed the “drop-in” clinics that have sprouted up around the state’s capital city in the last three years or so. It’s amazing what a diverse group they are! Sutter Express Care, owned by a large non-profit, hospital chain, has been hoping to use ...
Business & Economics
Town leaders knew of rising trash fees
Americans pay a “tort tax” of $865 billion a year, according to last year’s estimate by the Pacific Research Institute. This figure represents money taken out of the economy via awards, settlements, lawsuit-avoidance tactics and price inflation of products and services provided by litigation-prone industries. The scholarship is challenging, but ...
Commentary
Massachusetts’ Commonwealth Connector’s Compliance Confusion
Advocates of so-called “universal” health care often cite the “fragmentation” of the status quo as reason enough to increase taxes and fines so that everybody has health insurance – whether we like what’s offered or not. And, they have a point: the employer-based health care system lets a lot of ...
California Health Care: Learning from history for a healthier future
After folding on ABX 1 1, the governor now tries his hand at the state’s dwindling budget with desperate ideas to rescind tax credits and request more federal funds. As for health care, the legislature’s “new” approach is incremental change. There are few winning hands thus far. The publicity and ...
Is N.C. a ‘sucker’ state?
A new report says North Carolina is a “sucker” because its legal climate is ripe for greedy lawyers seeking a payday. The report released Tuesday by the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco ranked each state’s tort-system using three measures, reports Titan Barksdale. Researchers at the institute say that although ...
New study from PRI further documents economic performance tied directly to health of legal system
PRI’s Dr. Lawrence McQuillan joins AJP in this exclusive interview to discuss the new methodologies behind the 2008 Update to the US Tort Liability Index, originally released in 2006.
Calls to Inaction? Three New Books on Health Reform
During 2007, some new books on health reform offered the same old message of single-payer, government-monopoly health care. Others offered market-based solutions but, unfortunately, rely too much on “top-down” technical innovation instead of “bottom-up” consumer preference to improve American health care. Three books not only show the wide spectrum of ...
Report praises Colorado’s tort laws
A ranking released Tuesday says Colorado has the best tort laws in the nation. The ranking by the Pacific Research Institute of San Francisco compared the legal climates of each state in a report titled “U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report.” But the report classified Colorado as “salvageable” because of ...
Illinois, NY among usual tort suspects in PRI study
Legal Newsline.com, March 11, 2008 Madison-St. Clair Record (IL), March 11, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO — Florida ranks worst in two key litigation-risk factors for business but will likely improve in future thanks to recent tort-reform measures, a nationwide study revealed today. The Pacific Research Institute’s 2008 U.S. Tort Liability Index ...
Legal Costs, Driving Out Economic Growth
The Pacific Research Institute has just released its latest study on the civil litigation climates in each of the states, “U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report.” Indexwise, good news for North Dakota, bad news for Florida. The study takes a twofold approach toward assessing a state’s tort climate — its ...
California’s Convenient Clinics: Some Win, Some Lose, All Change
The Sacramento Business Journal (subscribers only) has surveyed the “drop-in” clinics that have sprouted up around the state’s capital city in the last three years or so. It’s amazing what a diverse group they are! Sutter Express Care, owned by a large non-profit, hospital chain, has been hoping to use ...
Town leaders knew of rising trash fees
Americans pay a “tort tax” of $865 billion a year, according to last year’s estimate by the Pacific Research Institute. This figure represents money taken out of the economy via awards, settlements, lawsuit-avoidance tactics and price inflation of products and services provided by litigation-prone industries. The scholarship is challenging, but ...
Massachusetts’ Commonwealth Connector’s Compliance Confusion
Advocates of so-called “universal” health care often cite the “fragmentation” of the status quo as reason enough to increase taxes and fines so that everybody has health insurance – whether we like what’s offered or not. And, they have a point: the employer-based health care system lets a lot of ...
