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American Association of Managing General Agents

• 150 South Warner Road
• Suite 156
• King of Prussia, PA 19406
• (610) 225-1999
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Established in 1926, the American Association of Managing General Agents has continuously served the interests of companies and agents for more than three quarters of a century. The AAMGA works with insurance companies, insurance related business and agents. The AAMGA has continued service to the insurance industry with renewed commitment to growth and prosperity for its member companies and the industry they serve.

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Here’s What is Stopping Tort Reform

James Copland, The Manhattan Institute

(Washington Examiner) In his September 9, nationally televised speech before a joint session of Congress, President Obama made news by saying that medical-malpractice litigation “may be contributing to unnecessary costs” in the U.S. health-care system.

Since then, trial-lawyer advocates—including their lobbying arm, the American Association for Justice (AAJ), and various allied “consumer” groups such as the Center for Justice and Democracy—have been engaged in a fierce counter-attack. Front-and-center among the lawyer-advocates’ arguments is that litigation is too small a piece of the health-care puzzle to make much difference.

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New Report Boosts Backers of Lawsuit Reform

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Limiting medical malpractice lawsuits could save the U.S. government $54 billion over a decade, congressional budget analysts said on Friday in a report that could boost a Republican push to include lawsuit reform in President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul.

Capping awards for non-economic and punitive damages along with other reforms would reduce doctors’ malpractice insurance premiums and defensive medicine practices for government health programs, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said in a letter to Republican Senator Orrin Hatch.