Documents

Press Release · October 9, 2003

Hypocrites of "Tort Reform": Doctors and Organized Medicine

White Paper · October 6, 2003

White Paper: Hypocrites of “Tort Reform”: Doctors and Organized Medicine

Examines doctors and medical societies that run to court when they've been harmed, as well as doctors who make more per year than what they want to give patients for a lifetime of suffering.

Press Release · September 30, 2003

GAO Findings Consistent with Earlier Investigations: No Crisis

Press Release · September 26, 2003

Med Mal Insurer Dumping States with Severe "Tort Reforms": More Evidence that Caps Do Not Work

Press Release · August 11, 2003

New Data Shows Medical Malpractice Filings Have Dropped Over Last Decade; Refutes American Medical Association Claims of "Crisis" in Several States

Press Release · August 5, 2003

Consumer Group Calls on American Medical Association to Stop Doctors' Use of Anti-Patient Arbitration

Press Release · April 24, 2003

CJ&D Report Refutes American Medical Association Claims of "Crisis"; Ignores Contradictory Courtroom and Medical Evidence in 18 States

Study · April 9, 2003

White Paper: Where's the Crisis? Has America Been Duped by the AMA?

Refutes American Medical Association claims of “crisis” by examining contradictory courtroom and medical evidence in 18 states.

Press Release · March 13, 2003

Statement of Joanne Doroshow, Executive Director, Center for Justice & Democracy, in Response to U.S. House of Representatives Passage of H.R. 5

Press Release · March 3, 2003

Seven Medical Malpractice Victims Travel to Washington DC to Ask American Medical Association to End Campaign to Limit Patients' Legal Rights

Study · February 1, 2003

Stable Losses/Unstable Rates State Report: Illinois

Shows Illinois medical malpractice claims have been stable for 30 years, but premiums gyrate in sync with economy and investment income.

White Paper · January 24, 2003

White Paper: The Money Vultures

Documents the malfeasance of the insurance industry and its close ties to President Bush and Congress.

Press Release · January 23, 2003

Consumer Groups and Malpractice Survivors Launch National Bus Tour Protesting President Bush's Call For Malpractice Limits

Press Release · January 15, 2003

Consumer Groups Denounce Bush Decision to Keep Media from Appearance at Hospital with Malpractice Record

Press Release · November 27, 2002

CJ&D Responds to 60 Minutes’ Morley Safer Segment

Letter · November 27, 2002

Letter to Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes

Press Release · November 19, 2002

Consumer Advocates Condemn Senate Homeland Vote Placing Corporate Special Interests Above the Public’s Interest

Press Release · November 1, 2002

CJ&D Responds to 60 Minutes’ Andy Rooney Commentary

Letter · November 1, 2002

Letter to Andy Rooney, 60 Minutes

Testimony · October 21, 2002

Statement by Joanne Doroshow before the Florida Governor's Select Task Force on Healthcare Professional Liability Insurance