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Two Hundred and Thirty-five years ago to the day, North Carolina was the first of the Colonies to authorize its delegates to declare independence from Great Britain. So how is this relevant to “tort reform” and the pending legislation called Senate Bill 33 in the North Carolina House? Well, this law, proposed by Rep. Johnathan…

NC House Bill 542 the Omibus “Tort Reform” Bill, has a provision that on its face seems to give immunity to “Emergency Rooms” for negligence. But the Bill is very subtle in the way it defines “emergency.”  This information was brought to my attention by a lawyer who used to be a Hospital Administrator and…

I read an interesting newspaper article over the weekend by Robert Pear for the New York Times News Service.  Read the article here.  Another good version of the article can be read here. The article says that the Bush administration “will no longer pay the extra costs of treating preventable errors, injuries and infections that…