Ten Years of Tort Reform in Texas: A Review
Texas chose to adopt reasonable, common-sense lawsuit reforms. As a result, the malpractice insurance premiums paid by Texas doctors have fallen by more than 60 percent on average. Consequently, most Texas doctors are paying less than half of what they were paying 10 years ago.
In contrast, malpractice premiums in New York have increased by 60 percent. As a result, almost 2,000 physicians have moved their practices from New York to Texas. To stem the loss of New York doctors moving to other jurisdictions, New York enacted legislation requiring the State of New York to subsidize the malpractice insurance costs of doctors, ignoring the problems in the state’s legal system that generated the high premium rates.
Malpractice premiums did drop, as one might expect them to. In fact they have gone down in most, if not all, of the states that have enacted tort reform. But what I said is that there is no evidence that tort reform has resulted in a reduction in healthcare insurance premiums or healthcare costs. And the link you provided makes no claims that it has, in Texas or anywhere else.