http://www.insurancejournal.com “Steady and sustained growth,” is how Vermont officials described 2006’s final tally for captive insurance as 37 new captive insurance entities were licensed. New to the nation’s largest captive insurer domicile, include such well-known companies as Starbucks Corp., McGraw-Hill, Principal Financial Group, Ameren and Aegon. According to the Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities […]

By Josh Fischman http://www.usnews.com Elsie Bishop didn’t expect to die in New Mexico. The 74-year-old left her Arkansas home in the summer of 2004 on a driving vacation with a friend and reached Santa Fe in early September. After dinner one night, she complained of extreme nausea, and an ambulance took her to a local […]

By SUSAN ALLEN Staff Writer http://www.rutlandherald.com Many Vermont physicians are concerned about bureaucratic hassles that interfere with patient care, low reimbursement rates and other problems they face in trying to provide medical care, according to an informal survey of 300 of Vermont’s primary care doctors. So significant are the challenges, the survey found, that some […]

By MIKE KELLER http://www.sunherald.com A recent Mississippi Supreme Court ruling could clear the way to make medical procedures public if patients are late to pay their doctor bills, a lawyer on the case said. “If you don’t pay your doctor’s bill, your medical privilege is waived,” said Frank Russell, a former Tupelo judge who represented […]

Nashville Business Journal by Erin Lawley http://nashville.bizjournals.com After years of legislative frustration, the Tennessee Medical Association is deploying a new tactic aimed at turning a medical liability reform bill into law. The organization has started an online and mail-in petition targeting supporters of medical liability reform. It plans to gather several thousand signatures and give […]

http://www.exduco.net An analysis of court settlements of medical malpractice cases in Texas and Florida shows that a reform plan known as “Early Offers” has strong advantages compared to the present tort system. Jeffrey O’Connell, professor of law at the University of Virginia, and colleagues W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch, both now at Vanderbilt University, […]

Anne Thrower http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com A top official with the American Medical Association will visit Pensacola today and discuss his desire for a fundamental shift in the way employees get health insurance. Dr. Cecil B. Wilson, chairman of the AMA board of trustees, is scheduled to speak at the Escambia County Medical Society’s annual inauguration ball. He […]

http://virginiabeach.injuryboard.com An interesting issue relating to medical negligence suits has been percolating in Virginia for a number of years. The issue may need to be decided in the Supreme Court of Virginia in the near future because there is actually a split of the circuit courts within the State on this issue. Several Norfolk and […]

http://home.businesswire.com The Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA), a national trade association that represents doctor-owned and/or operated medical professional liability insurance companies, commented today on a report released last week by Ralph Nader’s national group, Public Citizen. The report, “The Great Medical Malpractice Hoax,â€? suggests that there is no medical malpractice lawsuit crisis in America […]