Article:
Martin H. Redish, Legislative Responses to the Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis: Constitutional Implication, 55 TEXAS L. REV. 759 (1977).
 

Abstract:
The medical malpractice insurance crisis, marked by increasing insurance rates and decreasing availability of insurance coverage, has spawned extensive legislative discussion of procedural reform measures designed to alleviate the crisis. Professor Redish examines the constitutionality of the major reform proposals under consideration in the state legislatures. He concludes that most of the constitutional objections are insubstantial, and that the wisdom of the proposals as a matter of public policy is a controversial issue appropriately left for legislative determination.