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28 Document(s) [ Subject: Damage award caps ]

Committee:

Senate State Affairs, 78th R.S. (2003)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Border health | Damage award caps | Election administration | Election laws | Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 | Employees Retirement System of Texas | Health insurance | Liability insurance | Managed care | Medical liability insurance | Medically uninsured | Nursing homes | Patients' rights | Quality of care | Rural health care | State employee benefits | State mandated health insurance | Teacher health insurance | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | Tort reform | Voter registration | Voting systems |

Library Call Number:

L1836.78 St29a

Description:

[0 pages]

Charges:
1. Study the implementation of changes made to the state group health insurance plans and identify additional cost-saving measures. Study the feasibility and practicality of offering health reimbursement accounts as an alternate health insurance plan for those insured in ERS, TRS, and university plans. Provide recommendations regarding whether the current method of administering these programs is in the best interest of the State of Texas and the various insured populations, or whether such programs might be more efficiently administered in another fashion.
2. Monitor the implementation of HB 1549, 78th R.S., the Federal Help America Vote Act of 2002, to assure that Texas meets the criteria to secure the proposed federal funding. Make recommendations for statutory changes required to implement federal legislation and improve the efficiency of the process.
3. Study the implementation of SB 10, 78th R.S., and SB 541, 78th R.S., and make recommendations, as needed, to make health insurance more accessible, and affordable for all Texans.
4. Study the April 2003 United States Supreme Court decision in Kentucky Association of Health Plans v. Miller to determine its impact on Texas laws regulating health insurance plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and make recommendations to changes in state law to conform with recent federal court decisions.
5. Study the reimbursement methodology of health care plans operating in Texas for out-of-network claims, specifically focusing upon the reimbursement of usual and customary charges, and make recommendations on how to improve their effectiveness. The study and recommendations should encompass all plans, including those participating in Texas Medicaid managed care program and should consider federal and state laws as well as Health & Human Services Commission rules relating to the reimbursement of out-of-network claims.
6. Study the implementation of HB 4, 78th R.S., and Proposition 12 in achieving lower medical malpractice rates and providing more access to affordable health care. Monitor and report on trends in medical malpractice insurance rates and the effect of tort reform on access to health care and provider shortages in certain regions, particularly along the Border.
7. Study and report on the affordability, reasonableness, and impact of mandatory liability insurance on the nursing home industry. Assess and report on the effects of the admissibility of quality reports.
Committee:

House Judicial Affairs, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Attorney General of Texas | Damage award caps | Environmental crimes | Environmental laws and regulations | Medical liability insurance |

Library Call Number:

L1836.64 j897

Description:

[93 pages File size: 2,513 kb]

Charges:
1. Continue study of the propriety of granting to the Attorney General independent authority to sue to enforce environmental law.
2. Study all aspects of the problems involving medical malpractice suits.
3. Review the operations of all state agencies assigned to the committee for appropriative purposed. *
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Interim report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Damage award caps | Damage awards | Insurance rates | Medical liability insurance | Tort reform |

Library Call Number:

L1836.64 p96st

Description:

[0 pages]

Charges:
1. The commission shall make specific recommendations, including proposed legislation to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker, Legislative Council and members of the Legislature on or before December 1, 1976. The report shall offer specific recommendations regarding the professional liability problem. In addition, the report shall include, but not be limited to, discussions of the following topics: (1) the scope and extent of the medical professional liability problem; (2) reasons for the increase in such claims; (3) effects of the rise in such claims on physicians and health care providers, including the increased use of defensive medicine and increased premium costs; (4) effect of claims increase on patients, including increased costs; (5) alternative approaches and proposed solutions to this problem; (6) review of comparable law on compensation commissions, arbitration panels, screening panels and recommendations regarding use; (7) review of existing and proposed laws governing compensation and the amount of compensation to patients, including the time within which claims may be brought and the elements of loss for which compensation may be recovered; (8) the existing tort law in the area of concern and recommendations for change, if any; (9) any other matters or procedures which the Commission considers relevant to its report.
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Damage award caps | Damage awards | Insurance rates | Medical liability insurance | Tort reform |

Library Call Number:

M840.3 R299

Description:

[218 pages File size: 8,433 kb]

Charges:
1. The commission shall make specific recommendations, including proposed legislation to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker, Legislative Council and members of the Legislature on or before December 1, 1976. The report shall offer specific recommendations regarding the professional liability problem. In addition, the report shall include, but not be limited to, discussions of the following topics: (1) the scope and extent of the medical professional liability problem; (2) reasons for the increase in such claims; (3) effects of the rise in such claims on physicians and health care providers, including the increased use of defensive medicine and increased premium costs; (4) effect of claims increase on patients, including increased costs; (5) alternative approaches and proposed solutions to this problem; (6) review of comparable law on compensation commissions, arbitration panels, screening panels and recommendations regarding use; (7) review of existing and proposed laws governing compensation and the amount of compensation to patients, including the time within which claims may be brought and the elements of loss for which compensation may be recovered; (8) the existing tort law in the area of concern and recommendations for change, if any; (9) any other matters or procedures which the Commission considers relevant to its report.
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Newsletter

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.6 n477 1976-1976

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Maximum limitations on the amount of damages in medical malpractice actions

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 m45

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Grievance procedures of the Texas Medical Association

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 G874

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Arbitration - an introduction

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 ar16

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Present categories of recovery for personal injury

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 p926

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Staff report on screening panels

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 r299s

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Report to the All-industry Committee Special Malpractice Review: 1974 closed claim survey preliminary analysis of survey results

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 r299a

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Issue: altering the structure and function of the Board of Medical Examiners

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 is7

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Issue: physician relicensure and continuing medical education

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 P569

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Patients' compensation funds issue areas

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 p273

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Reaction to crisis: a state by state review of medical malpractice legislation enacted in 1975

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 r22

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Statement of policy of the State Bar of Texas regarding medical malpractice

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 b23

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Statute of limitations

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 st29l

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

The contingent fee system in medical malpractice cases

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 c767

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

A critical analysis of two elements of the law of damages for personal injury

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 c869

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Medical quality and patient outcomes: malpractice in perspective

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 m468

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

A report on the constitutionality of a proposed limitation on awards for pain and suffering

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 r299c

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

A brief description of some rating systems for insurance regulation

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 r189

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

The medical malpractice insurance pricing problem in Texas: an economic perspective

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 m468i

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Hospital licensure and certification

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 h794

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Medical malpractice insurance underwriting results in Texas

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 m468u

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Medical malpractice insurance rates in Texas

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 m468r

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

Total limits claim severities for medical malpractice insurance in Texas.

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 t64

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

Joint Medical Professional Liability, 64th R.S. (1975)

Title:

The reporting of malpractice suits to the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

M840.8 r299m 10/76

Description:

[0 pages]

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