Lawmakers approve overhaul to medical malpractice insurance (Jefferson City News Tribune) Missouri lawmakers voted Friday to give the state insurance director the authority to veto medical malpractice rates that are “excessive” or otherwise inappropriate in an effort to help cut doctors' insurance rates. [News Source]

Legal Debate: Assumptions on medical malpractice called into question (Science News) The notion that many medical-malpractice lawsuits are frivolous and intended to generate undeserved riches for plaintiffs and their lawyers isn't borne out in a new study. [News Source]

Study: 4 in 10 medical malpractice cases groundless (KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul) About 40% of the medical malpractice cases filed in the United States are groundless, according to a Harvard analysis of the hotly debated [News Source]