This Makes Me Sick : Lawyer Ordered to Pay Doctor

June 14, 2006

Lawyer Ordered to Pay Doctor

A physician owned and governed medical professional liability insurance company in Florida checked the mail and found a law firm check. It's about time. Back in August 2005, a Broward County Circuit judge ruled in favor of a doc insured by the group, dismissing a medical malpractice claim and ordering the plaintiff's attorney to pay the defense attorney's fees and costs. Adios, frivolous lawsuit. Read [Business Wire]

Doc and Hospital Reunion: OB/GYN Dr. Donovan Dietrick had run his won practice since 1984. But by 2004 he was dropping $130,000 bill for med mal insurance. And his income wasn't rising . The payments he typically received from health insurers for delivering a baby had declined from around $2,300 in the early 1990s to around $2,000 last year. So, he closed up shop, joined a hospital and stopped delivering babies. Read [Baltimore Business Journal]

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"This election destroyed a popular Karl Rove myth. The truth is that trial attorneys are winning, attacks on trial attorneys are backfiring and opponents of the civil justice system are losing."
The CEO of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America said.
"We have discovered that virtually all patients are willing to sign a contract in which they agree not to sue their doctors on frivolous grounds."
Jeffrey Segal, M.D, a board-certified neurosurgeon and the founder and president of Medical Justice Services, Inc., said.
"Low-risk obstetrics has been done here for 60 years, but not anymore."
Carl Hanson, chief operating officer of the county-run Minidoka Memorial Hospital in southern Idaho hospital's, explained as they get out of the baby business. Read
"I have children, and I don't know where they're at."
Rosalinda Elison, a former patient at the UC Irvine Medical Center’s fertility clinic, said after learning that that her eggs and embryos had been stolen and implanted in another woman who then gave birth to twins.

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New York state grants available to expand the use of electronic medical records. Such initiatives have been hailed nationally as a way to cut medication errors, save money and improve patient safety. LINK
$700,000
Amount raised by Fairness and Accountability in Insurance Reform to oppose malpractice limits in Arizona. LINK
$450,000
Amount the Arizona Medical Association says Arizonans for Access to Health Care has raised to decide whether to push for montetary limits on lawsuits. LINK

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