Insurance

Consumer Group Releases Doctor E-mails Detailing Strike

March 10, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">National Journals Technology Daily</p> <p>In addition to plans of action, the e-mails also included messages that advised physicians to threaten wavering doctors with loss of referrals, the financial mainstay of many private practices.</p>

Anatomy of a Strike: Doctors’ E-Mail Shows Depth of Anger

March 10, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The New York Times</p> <p>A month after thousands of New Jersey doctors staged a work stoppage to protest rising malpractice insurance rates, a series of e-mail messages between doctors and protest organizers making those and other recommendations offers an intriguing glimpse into</p>

How Insurance Reform Lowered Doctors’ Medical Malpractice Rates in California

March 7, 2003

This report shows how California’s landmark Proposition 103 has lowered Medical Malpractice rates for doctors across the state. It also shows how caps on damages...

Med-Mal Reform In Senate Doubtful

March 3, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Insurance Chronicle</p> <p>Harvey Rosenfield told the panel that a cap on liability awards, which has existed in California since 1975, would do more to improve insurers' bottom line than lower malpractice premiums and improve access to healthcare.</p>

Editorial – Medical Malpractice

March 2, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Florida Today</p> <p>While caps would lower insurance campanies' payouts, nothing would be done to restrict their ability to boost insurance premiums.</p>

The Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis Hoax;

March 1, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>The Corporate Drive for Legal Immunity</h3><p class="source">Multinational Monitor</p> <p>Applying a one-size-fits-all limit to non-economic damages objectifies and erases the person, considering them as a fixed "thing" for the purposes of law so that there is no recognition of the uniqueness of their suffering.</p>

Testimony of Harvey Rosenfield on Medical Malpractice Insurance

February 27, 2003  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<h3>Before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health</h3> <p>FTCR President Harvey Rosenfield presents testimony on the success of California Insurance reform, Proposition 103, in restraining medical malpractice insurance premiums and the failure of the state's severe malpractice liability caps to reduce rates.</p>

Malpractice caps need to retain flexibility

February 25, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The Nashville City Paper</p> <p>Doctors who face mountainous malpractice insurance premiums because of over-the-top "pain and suffering" lawsuit awards should get relief. But we don't think a blanket cap of $250,000 is the answer.</p>

New Jersey Doctors’ Strategy Email #2

February 25, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<!-- excerpt --><p>Read second email outlining doctors' tactics to divert attention from the real cause of the malpractice "crisis"</p>

Award limits won’t cut premiums

February 25, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Malpractice report is 'shallow,' needs work, senator says</h3><p class="source">The Louisville Courier-Journal (KY)</p> <p>Limits on jury awards, which would be permitted by a proposed constitutional amendment supported by physicians, could raise but won't reduce doctors' malpractice insurance premiums, according to a draft study by the General Assembly's staff.</p>

Med Mal Caps Won’t Solve Insurance Hikes

February 24, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Connecticut Law Tribune</p> <p>It became apparent that caps did not succeed in lowering insurance rates, since just the opposite occurred. Punishment for insurers was swift and severe. In 1988, California voters passed Proposition 103, which rolled back and severely regulated insurance</p>

C.L.U.E. (Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange) Irks Consumer Groups

February 24, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">National Underwriter</p> <p>Consumer advocates complain that some insurers are using the C.L.U.E. database to aggressively non-renew or sell at high prices in the tight insurance market.</p>