Kelsey Volkmann, The Examiner BALTIMORE – Doctors are leaving Maryland because of skyrocketing medical malpractice insurance costs, but the General Assembly might not tackle reform until 2008, when a temporary fix expires, observers and lawmakers say. Hospital medical directors say “they are spending an increasing amount of time on recruiting and retaining physicians,” said Pegeen […]

By M. William SalganikSun reporterhttp://www.baltimoresun.com Maryland’s largest malpractice insurer is seeking to cut its premiums by 8 percent for 2007 – a sharp contrast to 2004 and 2005, when hefty premium increases provoked waves of physician protests and pushed the state legislature into special session to enact premium subsidies. The rate reduction would be the […]