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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, 2003Florida Today While caps would lower insurance campanies' payouts, nothing would be done to restrict their ability to boost insurance premiums.
Mar 2, 2003Janet Warren - Los Angeles, California
Mar 1, 2003Managed Healthcare Executive Kaiser Permanente will let members and physicians have access to medical records and also provide members with key information…
Mar 1, 2003Managed Healthcare Executive Kaiser Permanente will let members and physicians have access to medical records and also provide members with key information…
Mar 1, 200313 Years of Insurance Regulation: CA Premiums DECREASE 2% Medical malpractice premiums rose 450% in the thirteen years following passage of California's…
Feb 27, 2003Reluctant Physicians Pressured Through Economic Retaliation As Illinois physicians strike today over their malpractice rates, a secret e-mail from striking New Jersey…
Feb 26, 2003Read second email outlining doctors' tactics to divert attention from the real cause of the malpractice "crisis"
Feb 25, 2003Read here internal emails from New Jersey doctors, outlining their strategy to delay and inconvenience patients to win political points and limit…
Feb 25, 2003The 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, 2003Malpractice report is 'shallow,' needs work, senator saysThe Louisville Courier-Journal (KY) Limits on jury awards, which would be permitted by a proposed…
Feb 25, 2003The family of the 17 year old victim of a botched heart-lung transplant, Jesica Santillan, would not be able to find an…
Feb 24, 2003Connecticut Law Tribune It became apparent that caps did not succeed in lowering insurance rates, since just the opposite occurred. Punishment for…
Feb 24, 2003National Underwriter Consumer advocates complain that some insurers are using the C.L.U.E. database to aggressively non-renew or sell at high prices in…
Feb 24, 2003San Bernardino County Sun The proposed reduction still fails to meet what consumers need, though, argues Doug Heller, a senior consumer advocate…
Feb 21, 2003Doctors say soaring insurance rates drive them out of high-risk specialties; patients argue lawsuit limits would leave some vulnerable to substandard care.The…
Feb 21, 2003Consumer Group Presents Data, Arguments in Challenge to Rate Hikes Under Rules of Prop. 103
Feb 20, 2003Consumer Group Presents Data, Arguments in Challenge to Rate Hikes Under Rules of Prop. 103
Feb 20, 2003