Consumer Watchdog

Healthcare

Hype outraces facts in malpractice debate

USA Today Premiums are rising rapidly, but no more than other health care costs. They represent only a small slice of doctors'…

Mar 5, 2003

Bush Should Instigate Investigation of Questionable Ties Between Medical Societies, Malpractice Insurers

Consumer Advocates Recommend Insurance Regulation, Not Damage Caps, To End Malpractice "Crisis" Consumer and patient advocates called on President Bush to scrutinize…

Mar 4, 2003

AMA Lies About Medical Malpractice Data;

Insurers Rep Testifies HMO Liability Limited Under House Malpractice Caps

Mar 4, 2003

Healthcare

Tough Call: Should There Be A Cap on Medical Malpractice Awards?

CNNFN-TV MARKET CALL Healthcare reform is a hot-button issue today inside the Beltway. President Bush and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are confronting…

Mar 4, 2003

Insurance

Med-Mal Reform In Senate Doubtful

Insurance Chronicle Harvey Rosenfield told the panel that a cap on liability awards, which has existed in California since 1975, would do…

Mar 3, 2003

Privacy

Transplant case stirs malpractice questions

Knoxville News-Sentinel Bill Frist, the only physician in the U.S. Senate, is hoping that his years of work to reform medical malpractice…

Mar 2, 2003

Insurance

Editorial – Medical Malpractice

Florida Today While caps would lower insurance campanies' payouts, nothing would be done to restrict their ability to boost insurance premiums.

Mar 2, 2003

Healthcare

Family Denied Compensation Upon Wife & Mother’s Death

Janet Warren - Los Angeles, California

Mar 1, 2003

Healthcare

Kaiser offers plan info, medical records online

Managed Healthcare Executive Kaiser Permanente will let members and physicians have access to medical records and also provide members with key information…

Mar 1, 2003

Healthcare

Kaiser offers plan info, medical records online

Managed Healthcare Executive Kaiser Permanente will let members and physicians have access to medical records and also provide members with key information…

Mar 1, 2003

13 Years of Malpractice Caps: CA Premiums INCREASE 450%

13 Years of Insurance Regulation: CA Premiums DECREASE 2% Medical malpractice premiums rose 450% in the thirteen years following passage of California's…

Feb 27, 2003

Secret Email From NJ Doctors Shows Real Intent Of Staged ‘Malpractice Crisis’: Cause “Confusion And Inconvenience” For Patients, Not Insurers

Reluctant Physicians Pressured Through Economic Retaliation As Illinois physicians strike today over their malpractice rates, a secret e-mail from striking New Jersey…

Feb 26, 2003

Insurance

New Jersey Doctors’ Strategy Email #2

Read second email outlining doctors' tactics to divert attention from the real cause of the malpractice "crisis"

Feb 25, 2003

Healthcare

New Jersey Doctors’ Strategy Email #1

Read here internal emails from New Jersey doctors, outlining their strategy to delay and inconvenience patients to win political points and limit…

Feb 25, 2003

Insurance

Malpractice caps need to retain flexibility

The Nashville City Paper Doctors who face mountainous malpractice insurance premiums because of over-the-top "pain and suffering" lawsuit awards should get relief.…

Feb 25, 2003

Insurance

Award limits won’t cut premiums

Malpractice report is 'shallow,' needs work, senator saysThe Louisville Courier-Journal (KY) Limits on jury awards, which would be permitted by a proposed…

Feb 25, 2003

Victim of Failed Transplants Would Not Find Attorney Under Bush Proposal

The family of the 17 year old victim of a botched heart-lung transplant, Jesica Santillan, would not be able to find an…

Feb 24, 2003

Insurance

Med Mal Caps Won’t Solve Insurance Hikes

Connecticut Law Tribune It became apparent that caps did not succeed in lowering insurance rates, since just the opposite occurred. Punishment for…

Feb 24, 2003