Legal Opinion
Medical Malpractice Insurance Ass'n v. Superintendent of Insurance
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 15, 1988PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Titone, J.
In response to the continuing upward spiral of medical malpractice liability insurance, the Legislature, in 1985 and again in 1986, passed substantive and procedural rules designed to restrain increases in medical and dental malpractice premiums (see, L 1985, ch 294; L 1986, ch 266). The underlying legislative concern was that increasing malpractice premiums *757threaten the public health by discouraging physicians from initiating or continuing the practice of medicine in New York. The legislative reforms have been challenged on many fronts (see, Medical Malpractice…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Kurcsics v. Merchants Mutual InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
- Montgomery v. DanielsNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
- Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. North Carolina Corporation Comm'nSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Brooks-Scanlon Co. v. Railroad Comm'n of La.Supreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Kansas Ex Rel. Railroad CommissionersSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
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3Cited by30 opinions
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- Daxor Corp. v. State of New York Department of HealthNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
- Allstate Insurance v. RiveraNew York Court of Appeals · 2009
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