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Report Eviscerates Tort Reform Logic

By Alyssa Abkowitz

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | November 4, 2004

A "smoking gun" report filed last week by the nation's largest provider of medical malpractice insurance found that capping pain and suffering damages in malpractice cases -- a proposal known as tort reform -- won't lower doctors' premiums after all.

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