A clear indication that Michigan’s 1993 tort reforms are working is that the state’s largest physician medical malpractice insurer is cutting its premiums by 12 to 25 percent for Wayne County physicians, the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) announced recently at a news conference in Detroit. The average decrease for all physicians in Wayne County […]

First Professionals Insurance Co. (FPIC) and Bentley Insurance Group (BIG) of Chicago have joined forces to protect physicians and surgeons with favorable loss histories in Illinois via an exclusive risk purchasing group, Bentley RPG. This approach began when BIG formed to provide MPLI coverage for Illinois doctors with favorable loss histories. Both BIG and FPIC […]

By Alison Snyder Long Island Business News – New York Business News Physician groups are aggressively lobbying Congress to stop a controversial 10 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements, which doctors on Long Island argue would force some to stop taking the government-sponsored health plan. The proposed 2008 cuts were announced in November by the Centers […]

Agency Marketing Services to be Acquired by an Affiliate of DarwinProfessional Underwriters, with Management from Wolf Professional Risk of Tampa, FL http://www.reuters.com Agency Marketing Services (AMS), a privately owned, twenty-five year old professional liability program manager and wholesale insurance broker, is being acquired by EvolutionUnderwriting, Inc., a newly formed affiliate of Darwin ProfessionalUnderwriters, Inc. (Darwin) […]

Austin Business Journal American Physicians Service Group, an Austin-based medical professional liability insurance provider, has received a financial strength rating of A- for its subsidiary American Physicians Insurance Company from A.M. Best Co. A.M. Best cited API’s strengthened risk-adjustment capital position and strong policyholder retention, APS says. A strong financial rating usually makes companies more […]

http://www.emediawire.com DocSite, a leading provider of patient registries and point-of-care decision support to the healthcare market, today announced a multi-year agreement with the American College of Physicians (ACP) to integrate the ACP’s prestigious PIERâ„¢ (Physicians’ Information and Education Resource) content into DocSite’s patient registry applications providing ACP vetted clinical guidance at the point-of-care. Studies suggest […]

By Brian Lockhart Columnist http://orient.bowdoin.edu/ As December rolls around, I thought I might break the seal on campaign issues. I would like to discuss a consequence of medical liability lawsuits on health care that is not very well known. Most people know that doctors’ insurance has inflated dramatically as there have been increasing incidences of […]

http://www.eurekalert.org Contact: Charles Casey University of California – Davis – Health System Apart from a more complicated medical case, what makes different physicians spend different amounts of time with their patients” Researchers at UC Davis have identified several key doctor- and practice-specific characteristics that affect the length of a patient’s medical appointment, and ultimately with […]

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NY TIMES A state lawmaker proposed yesterday that New York create a $59 billion health insurance program that would cover everyone in the state and would probably be paid for through a tax increase. The plan, from Assemblyman Richard N. Gottfried, would generally replace the private health plans that now provide […]