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CMA president sets sights on tort reform, burdensome regulations and membership growth

The new president of the California Medical Association (CMA), Luther Cobb, M.D., spoke to the 500-member House of Delegates (HOD) in San Diego on Saturday saying that CMA must use the political capital it has ‘banked’ by recently defeating the trial lawyers’ Proposition 46 to further reshape the future of medical liability. “Now that the trial attorneys have so amply demonstrated the wrong way to do it, CMA can chart a course for meaningful and durable reform, that is fair to those truly injured by medical mishaps, while protecting the ...