By Tambria Leonard-Whitman Leader correspondent Homepage Dr. Wilbur Hah of Orange Medical Surgical Associates asked Judge Carl Thibodeaux and members of the Orange County Commission on Monday for help to avoid a forced reduction and degradation of medical services in Orange. “Quality health care is at stake,” Hah told commissioners. He is concerned low fees […]

By Dara Kam Palm Beach Post Capital Bureau The Florida Senate rolled out an insurance proposal Monday aimed at reducing property insurance premiums but including measures that both consumer advocates and the insurance industry say won’t help stabilize the market in the long run. The 153-page draft bill would roll back Citizens Insurance rate hikes, […]

http://www.macon.com If you ever suffer life-threatening injuries in a car accident, a fall, a gunshot wound or a heart attack, you’d better hope you’re within 40 miles or so of a trauma center. If you are, you can get the quick and specialized help you need within the so-called “golden hour” where the majority of […]

By Adam Jadhav ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH A new attempt to address the political and legal debate over medical malpractice litigation in Madison County comes from what is perhaps an unlikely source. The battle over the issue that made the news almost daily in 2005 largely pitted lawyers, who say the court system is a fair […]

By Lee Romney, LA Times Staff Writer http://ktla.trb.com The young man told the emergency room doctor at Sutter Coast Hospital that he had come to await the end of the world under the big trees. He realized he needed help. But there are no psychiatric beds here, and not a single psychiatrist practices in Del […]

http://www.insurancejournal.com Nearly one-third of Wyoming doctors are planning to leave the state eventually and many of those say the cost of malpractice insurance is a factor, a new state report shows. The Wyoming Healthcare Commission this week released a report giving detailed information about doctors and other health care professionals in the state. The report […]

Mark Moran http://pn.psychiatryonline.org Because of congressional action, payment for psychiatrists will drop on average by just 2 percent instead of 7 percent. Other specialties will still be experiencing greater cuts in payment even after the action by Congress. An 11th-hour intervention by Congress averted a scheduled 5 percent across-the-board reduction in reimbursement for physicians and […]

http://www.insurancejournal.com Oklahoma State Representative Jason W. Murphey (R-Guthrie) has introduced legislation intended to lower medical costs by providing incentive for insurers to write “Negative Outcomes” insurance policies. The bill also seeks to help ensure that patients are properly and quickly compensated for medical malpractice. In the announcement, Murphey said Negative Outcomes insurance is a unique […]

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/ The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report features recent developments related to medical malpractice in four states. Summaries appear below. * Illinois: Illinois medical malpractice insurance premiums have decreased by an average of 5.2% this year and either will remain the same or drop again next year, according to ISMIE Mutual, the state’s largest malpractice […]