Malpractice fee hikes mean some US MDs can't afford to work.

Reports that physicians in the U.S. are curtailing services in emergency rooms and trauma and maternity centers because increases in malpractice insurance fees are not affordable. Strike of surgeons in West Virginia to protest increasing fees; Focus of the American Medical Association on liability insurance reform; Idea that investment losses of insurance companies have driven them to increase revenue by raising fees; Perception that the solution to the problem is tort reform based on the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 in California.