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Medical Malpractice & Health Care Costs: Can Tort Reform Bend the Curve?

For Immediate Release
September 29, 2009

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Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

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WHAT:	"Medical Malpractice & Health Care Costs: Can Tort Reform Bend the Curve?"
WHO:	M. Gregg Bloche, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Amy Goldstein, National Social Policy Reporter, The Washington Post David Hyman, Richard & Marie Corman Professor of Law, Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy, University of Illinois, and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute Kathryn Zeiler, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
WHEN:	Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
WHERE:	Georgetown University Law Center McDonough Hall - Hart Auditorium 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20001
NOTE:	The panelists will discuss the connection between the tort system and medical spending; the likely impact of proposed tort reforms on medical mistakes, malpractice system costs, and compensation for medical injuries; and the role of politicians and the press in the public debate over health care. More information about the program can be found at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/oneillinstitute/documents/MedMal_blurb.pdf. This event is sponsored by the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. A Webcast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=902. Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.