Consumer and Victim's Rights Coalition

If you want to become familiar with this issue, we recommend you read:

The guide should be useful to anyone examining this issue -- the media, lawmakers and the public. The guide is in pdf format (reader in sidebar).

Topics Include: The Problems and the Cause
	The Insurance Industry: Unregulated Corporate Greed Medical Malpractice Insurance - Problems That Transcend Time and Place The Cause - The Insurance “Cycle” and Mismanagement Exiting Med Mal Insurers - Mismanagement and Fraud to Blame, not Juries How 9/11 Factors In: Exploding Rates/Exploited Policyholders Juries Are Not Causing Insurance Rates to Jump Myths About Litigation, Defensive Medicine and Costs A Chronology of Insurance Industry Leadership on “Tort Reform”
The Solutions:
	Rejecting the “Tort Reform” Solution - Serious Responses by Serious Policy Makers What Happens to Insurance Rates After Tort Restrictions Are Enacted? The Last Insurance Crisis - “Tort Reform” Had No Impact California -A Failed Model For Restrictions On Patients’ Rights The Cruel Impact of Damages “Caps” on Patients - Three Voices
Doctors and Malpractice
	Do Doctors Want Insurance Help or Just Special Treatment in the Courts Doctors’ And Their Problems How Much Medical Malpractice Is There?
Recent Investigative News Stories and Some Examples.