How has the national debate over medical-malpractice and medical liability reform been affected by a set of faulty studies?

The Treasury Department’s plan to reform the federal regulatory structure for financial services has focused unusual attention on the insurance sector, which is part of the financial services industry but regulated solely at the state level. Among other things, the Treasury recommended that insurers have the option, like banks, to...

This will be a full-day conference on the prospects and directions of reform in insurance regulation. Cosponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, Georgia State University, and the Risk Foundation, the conference will include papers by well-known insurance and financial services scholars. Subjects will include the optional federal...

Senator Ted Kennedy knew and expressed the sorrow of human life.

Is the real problem with America’s medical liability system too much medical malpractice rather than too much litigation? Are recent rises in medical malpractice insurance premiums caused by economic cycles instead of increasing claims? Should the system be compensating more people? In his...

Hurricane Katrina was an unprecedented natural disaster on American soil. Even beyond the tragic loss of life, the economic and political fallout has been huge. One little-noticed consequence is the coming battle in the courts over what could be at least $15 billion: will insurance companies find themselves liable under...

President Barack Obama's problem on health care and other issues is strategic; most Americans do not believe they are victims in need of protection and supervision.