A selection of the need-to-know civil justice news for the week of April 23-29.

 

N.J. Isn’t a Very Healthy State for Doctors to Live and Work in, Study Finds

Anjalee Khemlani | NJBIZ

New Jersey is (still) one of the worst states in the U.S. for doctors to live and work, according to a new report by Wallet Hub. The Garden State ranks 46th, just above Connecticut, Maryland, Rhode Island, New York and the District of Columbia, which comes in dead last at No. 51. The problem isn’t high competition, as is the case with New York, Rhode Island and D.C., but a high cost of living, high number of hospitals per capita and high malpractice award payouts per capita.

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MSNJ President Q&A: There’s Work to be Done to Fix the Pressures Against Docs in N.J.

Anjalee Khemlani | NJBIZ

The Medical Society of New Jersey and its members are battling on several fronts against pressures in the industry that make New Jersey one of the worst in the country for doctors.

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Lowering Health Care Costs by Eliminating Defensive Medicine

Bob Dorigo Jones | Let’s Be Fair

According to a nationwide survey of doctors conducted by Gallup, as much as one quarter of all the money spent on health care in the United States can be attributed to defensive medicine.

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Episode 696: Class Action

NPR’s Planet Money

Class actions have been around for centuries. But the modern version was created in the 1960s — in part by a young lawyer working on a manual typewriter in the back seat of a car. At the time, class actions were seen as a way to advance the civil rights movement. Today, thousands of class actions are filed every year. Some of them are still about civil rights. But they’re also about questions like: Is there enough pepper in this tin of pepper?

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Courtroom Not the Best Place for Aggrieved Consumers

Marcus Rayner | South Jersey Times Guest Editorial

As the president of an organization that is dedicated to “tort reform” and otherwise ensuring that New Jersey’s civil legal system is fair and unbiased, I read Bridgeton Mayor Albert Kelly’s April 25 column  (“The fine print of inequality”) with great interest.

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Christie’s N.J. Supreme Court Pick Confirmed, Ending Long Vacancy

Brent Johnson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

The state Senate on Monday gave final approval to Walter “Wally” Timpone, Gov. Chris Christie’s latest nominee to the state Supreme Court, ending a six-year battle to fill the last vacancy on New Jersey’s highest court.

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