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Ohio Victim of Medical Malpractice Finds That Bad Doc Has No Insurance And No Assets
To add insult to injury, a doctor in Ohio who botched a gastric bypass operation that killed his patient, has no medical malpractice insurance ... . Legislators have to make medical malpractice insurance mandatory as it is in many states such as New Jersey and Pennsylvania. For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Medical [more...]
Date: 2007-07-24 03:25:16
Blog: Cherry Hill New Jersey ...
DOES REFORM MATTER? LOOK AT TEXAS
A report by David Hendricks in the San Antonio Express-News offered hard data on the changes that have occurred in Texas since voters in 2003 gave the thumbs up to a state proposition capping lawsuit awards in medical malpractice cases. In 2003, four insurers offered medical malpractice policies, now 30 insurers do. Insurance companies [more...]
Date: 2007-06-08 13:11:58
Blog: NCPA | A Leader In Prom...
Makes you go “hmmm….”
Today I received a telephone call from an individual who injured herself and felt her doctor was negligent in addressing the injuries ... , if not all, doctors do not carry malpractice insurance (I had already known that lawyers do not carry malpractice insurance). Why? Because medical malpractice insurance is very expensive [more...]
Date: 2007-09-16 00:17:23
Blog: Livin’ The Dream, Baby...
Makes you go hmmm…
Today I received a telephone call from an individual who injured herself and felt her doctor was negligent in addressing the injuries ... , if not all, doctors do not carry malpractice insurance (I had already known that lawyers do not carry malpractice insurance). Why? Because medical malpractice insurance is very expensive [more...]
Date: 2007-10-15 21:48:07
Blog: Livin’ The Dream, Baby...
Kentucky Medical Malpractice Attorneys: Malpractice Insurers Prige-Gouging Doctors
Yet another study shows what Kentucky Malpractice Lawyers have been saying for years: it is the insurance industry, ... malpractice coverage. The report, compiled and authored by Jay Angoff (former Missouri Insurance Commissioner), surveyed annual reports from 15 medical malpractice insurers. Agnoff’s conclusion [more...]
Date: 2007-07-12 16:37:37
Blog: Kentucky Injury Law Bl...
Ohio Doctor Makes himself "Judgment Proof"
A doctor in Ohio practices medicine without Medical Malpractice insurance because he feels that the insurance is both, too expensive, ... malpractice lawsuit industry." "I've just been squashed by this stuff," said Fallang, former medical ... has been involved over 22 lawsuits and still refuses to pay for medical malpractice insurance. Although [more...]
Date: 2007-07-26 19:01:48
Blog: Dayton Ohio Personal In...
Docs & Juries
Docs & Juries Insurance agents’ medical malpractice insurance clients will be interested to learn that juries more consistently side with doctors ... - we are not buying this. A recent study in the Michigan Law Review (see here) compared jury verdicts ... of claim severity. And there are many physicians, medical malpractice insurers and other [more...]
Date: 2007-05-22 03:01:00
Blog: Specialty Insurance Blo...
Support for hitting back
Support for hitting back Aug 14, 2007 in strategies with 0 Comments ... from their existing frivolous cases. Medical Justice can supplement medical malpractice insurance and provide ... with your malpractice carrier’s appointed attorney to insure that, if a claim proceeds, you receive the best possible [more...]
Date: 2007-08-14 20:45:49
Blog: Keane Insurance Group...
PRESS RELEASE–Progress Seen in 2005 Medical Malpractice Reforms
Hartford - When Connecticut state legislators passed a series of medical malpractice insurance and litigation reforms in 2005 (Public Act 05-275) ... of Insurance released in April 2007, reported that premiums for the top five medical malpractice ... through 2007. The average number of medical malpractice case filed in the six years preceding [more...]
Date: 2007-07-25 14:09:42
Blog: Connecticut Voices for ...
Binding Arbitration, The Video
Wearing my movie/video critic hat I have to give five stars to the six minute sales pitch for arbitration in medical malpractice claims provided to ... ice to Eskimos. Watch video, sign away your rights.. Medical malpractice insurers have come ... as a result of medical malpractice, and the surviving spouse was also restricted to binding [more...]
Date: 2007-07-11 11:06:38
Blog: Greedy Trial Lawyer...
Pennsylvania Insurance Department Decides Not To Increase Medical Malpractice Limits
Deputy Insurance Commissioner Randy Rohrbaugh today said he has determined that there is not evidence of sufficient market capacity at the current time to mandate an increase in medical malpractice insurance limits in Pennsylvania. “In making this decision, our priority was to protect the consumers who are accessing health care in the state,” [more...]
Date: 2007-07-22 05:00:00
Blog: Medical Journal, Healt...
Pennsylvania Insurance Department Decides Not To Increase Medical Malpractice Limits
Deputy Insurance Commissioner Randy Rohrbaugh today said he has determined that there is not evidence of sufficient market capacity at the current time to mandate an increase in medical malpractice insurance limits in Pennsylvania. "In making this decision, our priority was to protect the consumers who are accessing health care in the state [more...]
Date: 2007-07-22 07:00:00
Blog: Symptomatic: Tracking H...
Study shows no exodus of Pa. doctors
Increasing malpractice costs seem to have little effect on number practicing. The Associated Press http://www.timesleader ... to a new study. Opponents of efforts to limit pain-and-suffering awards in medical malpractice ... s medical-malpractice insurance fund known as Mcare from 1993 to 2002. The study was published online [more...]
Date: 2007-04-26 15:59:22
Blog: News: Medical Malpracti...
Medical Malpratice - A Response To Many Questions
In the comments of this post, MD/PhD Student raised many different medical-legal issues ... medical costs are rapidly increasing. Malpractice insurance premiums, while obscene ... there. Try this link: Medical Malpractice Insurers Price-Gouged Doctors During This Decade as well [more...]
Date: 2007-06-07 18:48:40
Blog: New York Personal Injur...
Caps on Medical Malpractice Damages Cut Doctors’ Insurance Costs
By Richard C. Gross, Contributing Writer Health Behavior News Service http://www.hbns.org Caps on medical malpractice damages mean lower insurance premiums for doctors, according ... malpractice insurance premiums,” said lead author Leonard J. Nelson III, of the Cumberland School [more...]
Date: 2007-05-30 13:41:20
Blog: News: Medical Malpracti...
One reason malpractice insurance is expensive
One reason malpractice insurance is expensive Posted in Business, Daily life, Medical tagged malpractice at 9: ... -ups — including Kaiser’s top medical officer in Northern and Central California — about problems ... not just of tragic medical outcomes, but of a health plan that did not prevent them. [more...]
Date: 2007-10-16 16:14:14
Blog: Later On...
Interesting Evaluation
Interesting Evaluation Posted by Nima Taradji on September 9th, 2007 THE CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCE Thirteen years after the state’s severe $250, ... the insurance reforms of Prop. 103, California medical malpractice premiums rose faster than the national ... on recent rate requests by medical malpractice insurers in California, which resulted in rate [more...]
Date: 2007-09-09 16:11:47
Blog: Taradji Law Offices...
Payouts in Medical Malpractice Claims Flat For Last 20 Years
" An umbrella activist group calling for insurance reform released a study Wednesday in an attempt to refute the claim that out-of-control litigation prompted medical malpractice insurance rates to skyrocket in recent years. Americans ... for medical malpractice settlements, verdicts and legal defense has remained relatively flat for almost two [more...]
Date: 2007-05-22 21:25:07
Blog: Chicago Personal Injury...
Kentucky Medical Malpractice Attorney
Kentucky Medical Malpractice Attorney 22% of Stroke Patients Told to Call Physician, Not 911 Flea Explains "what juries care about." Former Kentucky Doctor Facing More than 100 Lawsuits Moves Assets and Changes His Name. Special Report Exposing the Myth around Medical Malpractice Insurance The Flea reveals why he was sued. [more...]
Date: 2007-08-28 02:33:10
Blog: Louisville, Kentucky A...
Report puts price on medical malpractice
A New Haven Register Editorial http://www.nhregister.com Cost in insurance settlements should be incentive for greater emphasis on safety ... of medical malpractice is one more incentive for Connecticut ... if it wishes to ever revisit that year’s bruising debate on medical malpractice insurance. Part [more...]
Date: 2007-05-22 14:54:35
Blog: News: Medical Malpracti...
Doctor-owned insurance company offers lower rates
BY BEN STEPHENS http://www.lvbusinesspress.com Years after many of the state’s physicians shut their doors to avoid soaring medical malpractice ... malpractice insurance firm aimed at retaining quality doctors in Nevada. The company, Premier Physicians ... . Volker estimates doctors can save 30 percent to 40 percent on their malpractice insurance [more...]
Date: 2007-07-16 13:52:06
Blog: News: Medical Malpracti...
Doctor apologies prevent lawsuits for medical malpractice
New Virginia (VA) law allows doctors and hospitals to apologize to the people they hurt by medical errors and not have it used against them in court ... Session. Getting this law passed was a smart play by the medical malpractice insurance lobby ... this is being used, the Plaintiff's attorneys handling medical malpractice cases have been receptive. [more...]
Date: 2007-06-21 14:40:16
Blog: Virginia Beach Virginia...
Doctor malpractice insurance gets new player
BY BRUCE JAPSEN http://www.chicagotribune.com Competition in the state’s medical malpractice insurance market has intensified, ... ago. In 2005 Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed a medical malpractice reform law, pushed by doctors ... with a Texas company the latest to launch professional medical liability coverage for Illinois [more...]
Date: 2007-08-13 14:47:51
Blog: News: Medical Malpracti...
Ah, malpractice in Illinois… again
Ah, malpractice in Illinois… again Posted by Howard Zimmerle under Illinois Case Law , Medical Information , Medical Malpractice No Comments Remember yesterday’s post about new insurance companies coming ... down the frivolous (medical malpractice) lawsuits that were occurring. What this does is reopen [more...]
Date: 2007-08-10 15:32:52
Blog: Quad Cities Injury Law...
At 2-year anniversary, Illinois’ malpractice law nears first court challenge
By Adam Jadhav ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The second anniversary of Illinois’ landmark medical malpractice legislation passed quietly last month, ... caps on the damages for pain and suffering in a malpractice lawsuit are constitutional. Only a few years ago, skyrocketing medical malpractice insurance rates caused a political and medical crisis [more...]
Date: 2007-09-06 16:27:18
Blog: News: Medical Malpracti...
Federalist Fred eats a Tort
It appears Fred Thompson is starting to show what his agenda will be as president, and that agenda is decidedly federalist ... to rising medical malpractice insurance rates (bold parts added by me): "Out-of-control medical ... in medical malpractice suits to $750,000. $250,000 of that applied to physicians. There were no limits put [more...]
Date: 2007-06-22 16:08:17
Blog: Politics and Pigskins...
Md. Blocks Insurer’s Plan to Return $68M
Less than three years after Maryland began subsidizing medical malpractice insurance premiums for doctors, the state’s leading malpractice insurer is reducing rates and offering doctors a rebate. This week, the Maryland Insurance Administration blocked a Original post by Washington Post and Elliott Back [more...]
Date: 2007-09-15 06:51:00
Blog: Covering Your Insuranc...
Going bare...
...which, in the medical world, refers to the practice of not carrying malpractice insurance ... where having malpractice insurance is optional. Notably Florida is one of them, and there is a growing ... , but I am also guessing that this would discourage a lot of malpractice lawyers from pursuing a case [more...]
Date: 2007-08-24 04:35:49
Blog: UroStream...
STLtoday - News - Illinois News
Thanks to my good friend Hans Poppe for finding this article. No surprise here, jury verdicts DON’T drive premiums up ... to refute the claim that out-of-control litigation prompted medical malpractice insurance rates ... that the amount of money paid for medical malpractice settlements, verdicts and legal defense [more...]
Date: 2007-05-18 20:22:05
Blog: Kentucky Injury Law Bl...
State Blocks Insurer’s Plan to Return $68 Million: Less Money Should Go to Doctors and More to Maryland, Commissioner Says
Less than three years after Maryland began subsidizing medical malpractice insurance premiums for doctors, the state’s leading malpractice insurer is reducing rates and offering doctors a rebate. This week, the Maryland Insurance Administration blocked a Original post by Washington Post and Elliott Back [more...]
Date: 2007-09-15 04:08:00
Blog: Covering Your Insuranc...
Doctor Fails to Show "Mental Anguish" in Appeal of Bad Faith Lawsuit Against Medical Malpractice Insurer
The Medical Protective Company v. Herrin, M.D., 2007 Tex. App. LEXIS 7867 (Tex. App. Texarkana, October 3, 2007) ... was told by his malpractice insurer that the doctor's consent to settle a pending lawsuit would ... (such as, he easily found replacement coverage and made more money in the years after non renewal than [more...]
Date: 2007-10-05 19:27:22
Blog: Law and Insurance...
After Med-Mal Caps, Suits Down, Profits Up
From today's Chicago Law Bulletin: In the two years since Illinois lawmakers set limits on pain-and-suffering damages in medical malpractice cases, lawsuits have declined and profits have risen sharply for the state's largest malpractice insurer ... that skyrocketing malpractice insurance premiums were driving doctors out of some fields of medicine — [more...]
Date: 2007-08-20 22:50:52
Blog: illinoisreview...
TRIAL LAWYERS ACCUSE MALPRACTICE INSURER OF ILLEGAL RATES
Yes, you read the title correctly! Doctors have long complained large malpractice lawsuits contribute to climbing insurance rates and rising medical costs. I represent the victims of medical negligence and hear from doctors all the time ... of medical malpractice suits – unless the State Board of Medicine took his/her license away. Second, why [more...]
Date: 2007-05-18 16:51:49
Blog: Legal Medicine...
U.S. states are making it easier for doctors to say, ‘I’m sorry’ when something goes wrong
The Associated Press http://www.iht.com The problem was obvious to anyone who looked at the middle-aged woman: ... that have helped drive up doctors’ malpractice insurance rates. In turn, say medical and insurance officials ... of guilt” if a patient files a malpractice suit. Lawmakers in Rhode Island and eight other states [more...]
Date: 2007-04-12 14:35:29
Blog: News: Medical Malpracti...
Bill would expand suit damages for grief and mental anguish
BY MIKE FITZGERALD News-Democrat http://www.belleville ... with the lowering of medical malpractice insurance premiums, resulting in a return of physicians ... medical malpractice reform. And we’re not there to reopen it.” Not only are dozens of physicians [more...]
Date: 2007-05-01 15:26:55
Blog: News: Medical Malpracti...
Insurance companies, doctors flock to Texas
01 JUN 2007 from San Antonio Express-News | Read the full story» When Texas voters in 2003 approved a state proposition capping lawsuit awards for medical malpractice cases, only four insurance companies even offered malpractice policies to Texas doctors. Now, 30 insurance companies crowd the market, and premiums have fallen like so many San [more...]
Date: 2007-06-08 15:23:37
Blog: TP Wire Service...
politics: the Democratic hopefuls
We asked you what the most important issues of the 2008 election should be. You voted: immigration, global warming, education and jobs ... prevention, “paperless” medical records, reform care for chronically ill, end insurance discrimination, lower the cost of prescription medication, medical malpractice reform. Chris Dodd Senator [more...]
Date: 2007-09-15 01:35:08
Blog: on mun2 :: The Best Mu...
Connecticut Doctor on Other Side of Malpractice Suit
http://www.the-injury-lawyer-directory.com We often hear about doctors being involved in multimillion dollar lawsuits, ... constantly complain about paying the huge medical malpractice insurance premiums they must pay, Dr. Malitz ... to deserving victims of medical malpractice or negligence. see original [more...]
Date: 2007-06-05 17:20:52
Blog: News: Medical Malpracti...
West Virginia Surgeon's strike
West Virginia Surgeon's strike It's about time that the medical community banded together to show everyone how they are being screwed by the malpractice insurance industry. These guys are paying over $100,000 per year in medical malpractice insurance and it's a crime. Can anyone out there tell me if there is another industry [more...]
Date: 2007-05-22 03:15:09
Blog: Surgical Diversions by ...
Professionals Can Say They're Sorry Too
Remember the quote from the old Love Story movie, "Love is never having to say you're sorry"? ... . The hospitals would join a growing number of U.S. medical centers and malpractice insurers ... . Believe it or not, medical professionals have been trained to never say they are sorry, even if they made [more...]
Date: 2007-09-04 20:31:20
Blog: Ψ Dare To Dream......
Free market magic
You can make these things up -- economists do it all the time -- but it's a lot more compelling when they really happen (link added) ... is that malpractice insurance rates started dropping almost immediately. That's consistent ... to the "market" (i.e., seeking medical malpractice insurance). The pushmepullyou of the interplay between [more...]
Date: 2007-07-09 19:09:36
Blog: Overlawyered...
Where to start?
Where to start? Hi- Linda kindly invited me to join you in posting items of interest and this is my first post on any blog ever so be kind if ... was covered under his professional liability insurance--not for medical malpractice ... to back up his gag. A Washington court ruled a dentist's malpractice insurance covers practical jokes [more...]
Date: 2007-07-28 15:40:45
Blog: Women's Bioethics Blog...
Malpractice Insurer Seeks Approval For Rate Cut
By DIANE LEVICK, Courant Staff Writer http://www.courant.com The Medical Protective Co ... . has been holding rates steady. “The Connecticut medical malpractice environment continues to be a volatile ... ., a malpractice insurer that raised its Connecticut rates nearly 90 percent three years ago, plans [more...]
Date: 2007-05-16 21:43:15
Blog: News: Medical Malpracti...
Federalist Fred eats a Tort
Federalist Fred eats a Tort EdMcGon: It appears Fred Thompson is starting to show what his agenda will be as president, ... the state of Texas for their solution to rising medical malpractice insurance rates (bold parts added by me): "Out-of-control medical malpractice lawsuits have been a problem in many parts [more...]
Date: 2007-06-22 16:07:53
Blog: RAGGED THOTS...
Health Care Lobby Contests Ability of Jurors to Make Decisions in Medical Malpractice Cases
Even though jurors sit everyday and make decisions on criminal cases on the guilt and innocence of people, ... a death penalty or be permitted to live, medical malpractice insurance companies do not believe that these same jurors are competent to receive testimony and evidence of medical malpractice trials [more...]
Date: 2007-07-02 19:31:17
Blog: Greenville South Caroli...
Sorry, doc, your personality is uninsurable
More malpractice insurers are requiring doctors to take personality tests or their equivalent: "Doctors who fare 'poorly' on the assessment ... at Iowa-based United Medical Liability Insurance Co. have to go through a coaching session ... , "Medical liability insurers adding personality tests to application process", American Medical News [more...]
Date: 2007-10-22 03:26:10
Blog: Overlawyered...
Doctors v. Lawyers and Insurance
We ran across this doctor's web site, and were intrigued by the assertion that medical malpractice insurance is doubling or tripling annually. This assertion seems impossible. Can it be? "There is a legal malpractice crisis in California. Jury awards are skyrocketing, and and lawyers' rates for malpractice insurance (which [more...]
Date: 2007-06-19 10:53:11
Blog: Legal Malpractice Attor...
Del. looks to attract captive insurers
By LESLIE A. PAPPAS, The News Journal http://www.delawareonline ... insurance elsewhere. Doctors having trouble finding affordable medical malpractice insurance ... in the U.S., Belgium, and Spain. Today, the 116 insurance brokers, bankers, attorneys, and company executives [more...]
Date: 2007-10-04 18:19:38
Blog: News: Medical Malpracti...
More on liability reform and the medically underinsured
Last year we took note of a paper presented at an American Law and Economics Association conference which found a relationship between limits on medical malpractice litigation and the percentage of the population covered by health insurance ... , entitled "How Do the State Medical Malpractice Laws Affect the Access to Health Care?" Abstract [more...]
Date: 2007-09-24 02:06:03
Blog: 潐湩潴䱦睡挮浯簠䤠普牯慭楴湯愠摮漠楰楮湯漠桴...
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