Give us Tort reform and we will lower the insurance premiums for doctors.  That’s the party line from Insurance companies.

In Georgia, two groups, AARP and Georgiawatch apparently don’t believe that this idea worked.

Two groups now say a controversial tort reform law is a failure. This,
on the one-year anniversary of the law, which places a $350,000 cap on
malpractice pain and suffering awards, and makes it difficult to sue if
the malpractice takes place in an emergency room. Georgiawatch and the
AARP say the reform has not decreased doctors’ insurance premiums as
expected. And, the groups say it has made it it hard for people like
John Dinda, who almost died in an emergency room. "We called a lawyer
and basically he says forget it. You got no chance of doing anything,"
Dinda tells Channel 2 Action News. Senator Preston Smith, who sponsored
the bill, says seven new insurance companies are now underwriting
malpractice premiums because of the law, and he says, given time,
premiums will fall for doctors.

Source:  WSBTV.com