New Mexico’s lawyer-centered medical malpractice system, with no statutory caps on attorney’s fees or punitive damages and the lowest standard in the country for awarding punitive damages, is out of ...

The number of $10 million-plus medical malpractice jury awards is growing. Learn how some states are starting to combat it.

Medical malpractice remains one of the most contentious and complex areas of law, involving patients who suffer harm due to the negligence of healthcare professionals. When individuals place their ...

Long before the legislative session started, a full-page ad accosted readers with this headline: “Medical corporations & insurance companies blame patients harmed by medical malpractice for the ...

Medical malpractice reform has been supported by many experts who argue it lowers healthcare costs by reducing the amount of defensive medicine practiced by physicians, but according to a recent RAND ...

Short of that, any federal action should encourage, or at least be consistent with, state medical-malpractice reform. Moreover, this offer is particularly ironic -- rather like putting the fox in ...

A wave of medical malpractice reform is reshaping legislation across the country, with four states recently updating their laws, Best Lawyers reported May 19. According to the report, these reforms ...

The debate on medical malpractice reform sidelined after only one person showed up for a roundtable hearing on Friday. Bill author Senator Wil Parkinson voiced his disappointment with the absent medic ...

A national study found that between 2019-2024, New Mexico lost 8.1% of our doctor workforce (248), while the number of doctors nationally increased by 7.3% (44,272). New Mexico also has the oldest ...

The nation’s leading advocacy group for state lawmakers wrote to House leaders on Wednesday to share their “strong, bipartisan opposition” to federal medical malpractice reform because it would ...

New Mexico’s lawyer-centered medical malpractice system, with no statutory caps on attorney’s fees or punitive damages and one of the lowest standards in the country for awarding punitive damages, is ...