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Liability insurance reform.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
The suggestion of Paul B. Bartulica, M.D., that physicians should organize to gain political clout is meritorious, but futile ("Rx for Civil Justice System," Letters, September 1, 2004, p. 5).
If physicians were as organized as the plaintiffs' bar, we wouldn't have spent 30 years complaining about our miserable medical liability situation. But physicians by nature are rugged individualists more interested in one-upmanship and stabbing each other in the back than in ever becoming a cohesive bunch.
Likewise, the recommendation of Robert R. Weiss, M.D., to vote sympathetic legislators into office isn't likely to work ("Treat Them, but Don't Elect One," p. 5). Lawyers have been described as "the larval stage of a ...
- Critique of Center for Justice & Democracy Study on Liability Insurance Crisis...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 9, 2003 700+ words
...determine that there is substantial evidence that liability insurance reform does correlate with lower insurance premium increases...for general liability and medical professional liability insurance. With tort reform being hotly debated in many...
- Pennsylvania Bar Association public forum on tort and liability insurance...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 6, 1988 700+ words
...PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION PUBLIC FORUM ON TORT AND LIABILITY INSURANCE REFORM MONDAY IN PHILADELPHIA The Pennsylvania Bar...forum Monday, May 9, on the issue of tort and liability insurance reform. The three-hour session begins at 2 p.m...
- PA Hospitals Thank Governor, General Assembly for Leadership on Medical...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 13, 2002 700+ words
...final passage of House Bill 1802, the medical liability insurance reform bill: "On behalf of our hospitals and the...General Assembly for their leadership on medical liability insurance reform. "House Bill 1802 contains provisions which...
- Medical liability insurance reform tops MSMA's agenda.(Health Care...
- Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal Jeter, Lynne January 12, 2004 700+ words
...Randy Easterling, M.D. "Many doctors are going without medical liability insurance and are financially vulnerable. Even though the state medical liability insurance pool administered by the tort claims board has provided temporary relief...
- PA Hospitals Applaud Medical Liability Insurance Reform Bill; Health Act Will...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 10, 2003 700+ words
...be coupled with a federal solution to solve the medical liability insurance crisis. "We also appreciate Congressman Murtha's support...physicians have left our community because of the increase in liability insurance. In addition, St. Mary and other area hospitals and...
- PA Hospitals Applaud Greenwood/Murtha Medical Liability Insurance Reform Bill;...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 25, 2002 700+ words
...recognized that state action alone would not solve the medical liability insurance crisis. "We also appreciate Congressman Murtha's important...reflect the subsequent collapse of the Pennsylvania medical liability insurance market," Scanlan said. "Hospitals going into the market...
- Kentucky Doctors Discuss Liability Insurance Reform.
- Newspaper article from: Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, Kentucky) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) October 23, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Lydia Carrico Oct. 23--Federal legislation to reform professional liability insurance, or malpractice insurance as it is more commonly known, is needed, officials say. But until that happens, Kentucky doctors...
- State's Physician Leaders Call on Commonwealth to Address `Code Blue' Liability...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 22, 2002 700+ words
...physicians from practicing without liability insurance. Between 1997 and September...there is adequate medical liability insurance reform and tort reform. 4) Invoke...bills to cover the costs of liability insurance. This could be done similarly...
Source: HighBeam Research, Liability insurance reform.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)