Welcome to the new Cunningham Group Insurance website! To our longtime readers, thanks for following us here. For those of you who are new, welcome, we also used to be MyMedicalMalpracticeInsurance.com. Why did we join forces with our parent company? Cunningham Group has always been the parent company of MyMedicalMalpracticeInsurance.com. We decided to merge the […]

A lot of spa owners may think that their malpractice insurance is the most important type of insurance they need. Certainly, malpractice insurance is very important, but today, let’s talk about the importance of Business Owner’s Insurance. First and foremost, a spa is a business. And, as a business, there are many concerns above and […]

With medical malpractice insurance being one of the most significant expenses that physicians face yearly, one of the first questions physicians ask us is, “How much is this going to cost me?” There are several factors that determine the general cost of malpractice insurance. 1. Your medical specialty. As you’d probably guess, specialties that involve […]

For most physicians, their medical malpractice insurance company doesn’t matter until, well, it does. When a physician faces a claim, it is important to know who is defending him or her and how. The next several months up to years can be spent dealing with one’s insurance company. And, because the inherent nature of being […]

Are you still not convinced that social media should be in the world of medicine? Are you weary of the intersection of health care and Facebook, Twitter, et al? Well, if you don’t want to take it from us that it’s here to stay, would you listen to the Mayo Clinic? They founded the Mayo […]

I’m thinking about doctor-patient communication today. Usually when we talk about doctor-patient communication, we tend to focus on the physician’s communication and what he or she can do to communicate better. We all know that it’s important and that we want physicians to communicate it well, but what, exactly, does that mean?! Some aspects of […]

Most of us agree that transparency in health care is a desirable thing, but how does one actually accomplish that? What can a health care provider do that would be meaningful and significant? A new organization, Who’s My Doctor, started in October 2013, is making it easy for providers to be transparent with their patients […]

Everyone fantasizes about finding that magical work-life balance, and very few of us find it –especially physicians. But, what about looking at locum tenens work? Many people view locum tenens work only as a second job, often to pay-off medical school debt. But, locum tenens work isn’t just for moonlighters. PhysiciansPractice.com recently had a really […]

This post is a follow-up to an earlier post about “perceived care.” It seems that there has been a lot of chatter lately about “care” –who gives it, what constitutes it, and who gets to decide. Today we’d like to talk more about this topic of care and a terrific case illustrating the different perceptions […]