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elongs historically and inherently to the judiciary.
Justice Nehring concurs in Chief Justice Durham's dissenting opinion.
APPENDIX A
Press Release, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Statement in Opposition to the Medical Malpractice Amendment (July 26, 2002), available at http://www.senate.gov/~kennedy/statements/02/07/2002730306.html.
Harming Patient Access to Care: The Impact of Excessive Litigation: Hearing Before the House Subcomm. on Health of the Comm. on Energy and Commerce, 107th Cong. (2001) (statement of Travis Plunkett, Legislative Director, Consumer Fed'n of America).
Americans for Insurance Reform, Medical Malpractice Insurance: Stable Losses/Unstable Rates 2004, at 3-8 available at http://www.centerjd.org/air/StableLosses04.pdf.
Congress Watch, Medical Misdiagnosis: Challenging the Malpractice Claims of the Doctors' Lobby (2003), available at http://www.citizen.org/PDF%20of%20Report.pdf.
Patricia M. Danzon, Medical Malpractice: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy 103-07 (1985).
Jean Hellwege, Med-Mal Caps in Two States Don't Reduce Insurance Rates, Trial, Feb. 2004, at 14-16.
J. Robert Hunter & Joanne Doroshow, Premium Deceit: The Failure of Tort Reform to Cut Insurance Prices 1999), available at http://www.insurance-reform.org/PremiumDeceit.pdf.
Sylvia Law & Steven Polan, Pain and Profit: The Politics of Malpractice 161-4 (1978).
Frank M. McClellan, Medical Malpractice: Law, Tactics and Ethics 76 (1994).
U.S. Gov't Accountability Office, Medical Malpractice Insurance: Multiple Factors have Contributed to Increased Premium Rates 8-10 (2003), available at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04128t.pdf.
Paul C. Weiler, Medical Malpractice on Trial 8-11 (1991).
Paul C. Weiler et al., A Measure of Malpractice: Medical Injury , Malpractice Litigation, and Patient Compensation 3 (1993).
Jay Angoff, The Truth about Med-Mal Premiums: A Former Insurance Commissioner Explains How the Current "Crisis" Came to Be and What We Can Do About It, Trial, May 2004, at 36-43.
Thomas P. Breutsch, The Legislature "Caps" the Jury: Damage Caps and the Michigan Constitution, 1 J. L. Soc'y 151, 177-78 (1999).
Patricia J. Chupkovich, Statutory Caps: An Involuntary Contribution to the Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis or a Reasonable Mechanism for Obtaining Affordable Health Care?, 9 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol'y 337, 340 (1993).
Nancy L. Manzer, 1986 Tort Reform Legislation: A Systematic Evaluation of Caps on Damages and Limitations on Joint and Several Liability, 73 Cornell L. Rev. 628, 629-32 (1988).
David J. Nye & Donald G. Gifford, The Myth of the Liability Insurance Claims Explosion: An Empirical Rebuttal, 41 Vand. L. Rev. 909, 922 (1988).
Kathleen E. Payne, Linking Tort Reform to Fairness and Moral Values, 1995 Det. C. L. Rev. 1207, 1221-24.
Frank A. Sloan, State Responses to the Malpractice Insurance "Crisis" of the 1970's: An Empirical Assessment, 9 J. Health Pol. Pol'y & Law 629 (1985).
Martin D. Weiss et al., Medical Malpractice Caps: The Impact of Non-Economic Damage Caps on Physician Premiums, Claims Payout Levels, and Availability of Coverage 5-6 (2003), available at http://www.weissratings.com/MedicalMalpractice.pdf.
Rachel Zimmerman & Christopher Oster, Insurers' Price Wars Contributed to Doctors Facing Soaring Costs, Wall St. J., June 24, 2002, at A1.
APPENDIX B
Congress Watch, Medical Misdiagnosis: Challenging the Malpractice Claims of the Doctor
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