West Virginia State Medical Association
Recent News About West Virginia State Medical Association
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Medical Association praises court decision upholding caps
CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia State Medical Association says it applauds the Court's "well reasoned decision" to uphold the state's cap on non-economic damages in medical liability lawsuits. -
News Flash: Personal injury attorneys don't like caps on malpractice awards
We knew our Legislature's caps on medical malpractice awards were going to be challenged, and who the challengers would be: personal injury attorneys and their clients. -
Briefs push both sides of med mal cap debate
MORGANTOWN – Caps on awards for pain and suffering in medical malpractice trials prevent runaway jury verdicts, the West Virginia State Medical Association pleads in a case the Supreme Court of Appeals will hear on Tuesday, March 8. -
The pain and suffering of every West Virginian
There may be something salutary about hair shirts, beds of nails and other instruments of self-mortification, but most people try to avoid pain and suffering. When it's inflicted by a second party, they protest loudly and demand redress. -
Medical, insurer groups support damages cap
CHARLESTON -- Various medical associations and insurer groups say they support the constitutionality of West Virginia's non-economic damages cap in medical liability cases. -
State Supreme Court should keep the caps
Caps are a good thing. They keep your head warm. They keep oil from spilling into waters. They keep contents from spilling out of bottles. -
Cap challenge concerns medical group leader
Jenkins CHARLESTON -- The executive director of the West Virginia State Medical Association says he is concerned about the implications of a case, set to be heard by the state Supreme Court early next year, challenging the state's medical malpractice reforms. -
Health care is first topic for Leadership West Virginia
CHARLESTON -– Health care will be the first issue examined as part of this year's learning/training sessions for the 2010 class of Leadership West Virginia. -
WV CALA sponsoring first legal education seminar
Heath CHARLESTON – West Virginia Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse is sponsoring a Continuing Legal Education seminar focusing on current legal developments in the state's civil justice system. -
Law professor disputes 'hellhole' ranking
Thornburg CHARLESTON -- A Southern Methodist University law professor says it's doubtful that West Virginia's judicial climate is as bad as some groups claim. -
Manhattan Institute takes on W.Va. courts in latest report
McGraw NEW YORK - Businesses are skittish about investing their resources in West Virginia because of the state's troubled legal system, a report released Monday by The Manhattan Institute says. -
ELECTION BRIEFS: Walker receives healthcare leadership award
Walker CHARLESTON -- Republican state Supreme Court candidate Beth Walker recently was awarded the 2008 Healthcare Leadership Award by the West Virginia State Medical Association. -
Walker endorsed by West Virginians for Life PAC
Walker CHARLESOTN - WVL-PAC, the political action committee of West Virginians for Life, has announced its endorsement of Beth Walker for Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals. -
Medical Association PAC endorses Beth Walker
Walker CHARLESTON -- WESPAC, the political action committee of the West Virginia State Medical Association, has announced its endorsement of Beth Walker for Supreme Court. -
Chief Justice tells docs MPLA not applicable in all med mal cases
Maynard CHARLESTON – So long as a 2003 medical malpractice reform law remains constitutional, it, and its component parts, will remain "a moving target" said West Virginia's chief justice. -
Bastress, Maynard neither support nor oppose non-partisan judicial elections
Bastress CHARLESTON – When it comes to confessing belief or opposition to making judicial elections non-partisan, at least two candidates for state Supreme Court admit to being agnostic on the question.