This is not directly related to trucking, but it is important generally to trucking litigation as an indication of the effects of tort reform in Texas. The New York Times today reports that more doctors are moving to Texas after the adoption of medical malpractice caps a couple of years ago:
Four years after Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment limiting awards in medical malpractice lawsuits, doctors are responding as supporters predicted, arriving from all parts of the country to swell the ranks of specialists at Texas hospitals and bring professional health care to some long-underserved rural areas.
The influx, raising the state’s abysmally low ranking in physicians per capita, has flooded the medical board’s offices in Austin with applications for licenses, close to 2,500 at last count.
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“Doctors are coming to Texas because they sense a friendlier malpractice climate,” he said.
