43% of CA Doctors Ready to Flee Despite Damage Caps, Medical Association Reports
A report by the CMA contradicts doctor and insurer claims today that the state's malpractice cap has stopped physicians from fleeing the…
Mar 5, 2003Consumer Watchdog
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Energy
PUC chief acknowledges parking free at SFO
San Francisco Chronicle Michael Peevey, the state's top utility regulator, said he mistakenly violated state rules by accepting $2,134 in free parking…
Mar 5, 2003
Healthcare
Malpractice Insurance: No Clear or Easy Answers
The New York Times The greatest drops in premiums and, so far, the most consistent, did not come until after California adopted…
Mar 5, 2003
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, 2003Bush 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, 2003AMA 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
Insurance
The Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis Hoax;
The Corporate Drive for Legal ImmunityMultinational Monitor Applying a one-size-fits-all limit to non-economic damages objectifies and erases the person, considering them as…
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, 200313 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, 2003Secret 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
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