Dr. Tom Gross http://www.marinij.com/ WE HAVE all read recently how it is becoming more difficult to obtain medical care. The care is out there, but our access to it is evolving. The science of medicine is doing well, but the business of medical care is imploding. In Santa Rosa, the old Community Hospital, now a […]

By Administrator http://www.desahogate.es The 109th Congress took as one of its favorite causes the issue of tort reform, passing legislation that severely limited an injured party’s right to sue and collect damages, and there is an ongoing debate on further restrictions on the ability of people to sue. One thing that is brought up repeatedly […]

http://www.insurancejournal.com National Specialty Underwriters, Inc. (NSU) has announced the hiring of Dianne O’Donnell as sales executive, and Meghan Hamilton as account manager for NSU Healthcare, a division of the company that specializes in the wholesale of medical professional liability to retail brokers nationwide. Advertisement O’Donnell spent the past 14 years focused on medical malpractice insurance–initially […]

By Phil Galewitz Palm Beach Post Staff Writer http://www.palmbeachpost.com Donna Casasnovas understood the consequences of a shortage of emergency room specialists months before the Palm Beach County Medical Society released the results of its study earlier this week. She might not have known that the 14 area hospitals have struggled for years to find enough […]

By Ronald David Weiss http://www.baltimoresun.com/ As America’s health care crisis deepens, the chorus demanding a universal solution grows louder. Health care is shaping up as one of the top issues in the 2008 presidential race. Like it or not, universal health care may be the only realistic path to pursue. The major challenge is paying […]

Associated Press http://www.napavalleyregister.com Doctors asked Nevada lawmakers Friday to pass a law that would let them say they’re sorry for medical mistakes — something they’re usually told not to do because of fears an apology could be used against them later in court. Several doctors and the head of the Nevada State Medical Association asked […]

By Phil Galewitz Palm Beach Post Staff Writer http://www.palmbeachpost.com The wait to see a doctor in Palm Beach County may be long now, but it’s likely to get much worse. If the existing supply holds steady, the county will have far fewer general surgeons and family doctors than it needs by 2011, according to a […]

The Insurance professionals only source for News The majority of medical malpractice claims in a study of seven states were closed without any compensation paid to those claiming a medical injury, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. BJS conducted a study of medical malpractice insurance claims that were closed from 2000 […]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com This April, entrepreneur, neurosurgeon Jeffery Segal, MD, FACS, and founder of Medical Justice Services, celebrates five years of relentlessly and successfully defending physicians against frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits – a defense that often includes taking the first punch. “Physicians are healers, and not fighters,” said Segal, a board-certified neurosurgeon. Waiting it out and hoping […]