Web posts offer insight into the profession, but also raise patient privacy issues. By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer For physicians of a certain age, the weekly teaching session known as grand rounds is a ritual steeped in formality and tradition. Presided over by the profession’s graybeards, grand rounds are attended with white […]

Doctors at Long Island College Hospital Dissent From Continuum Plan By E.B. SOLOMONT, Staff Reporter of the Sun http://www.nysun.com A cash-strapped Brooklyn hospital will stop delivering babies, aiming to regain its financial footing and reduce its escalating medical malpractice costs. Long Island College Hospital, in the Cobble Hill neighborhood, plans to shutter its obstetrics department […]

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Sarah Juon , Editor, NewsoftheNorth.Net It may seem like a step back in time when you look at the solo practice which Drs. Kim and Brian Erdmann, both internists, have established. There is no question they are bucking a trend of the past few decades in which physicians have abandoned solo practices en masse to […]

By Amanda Mantone Linehan http://www.dailynewstranscript.com MALDEN — James Cheverie was nearing 30 when what he calls “an early midlife crisis” hit him. Though he’d spent nearly a decade teaching science at Malden Catholic High School, he decided his true calling – an unreachable dream he’d long held – was to practice medicine. “I’d always hoped […]

http://money.cnn.com WARREN, N.J., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Chubb Corporation (NYSE: CB) today reported that net income in the second quarter of 2008 was $469 million or $1.27 per share, compared to $709 million or $1.75 per share in the second quarter of 2007. Operating income, which the company defines as net income excluding after-tax […]

Shannon Weidemann http://greenville-nc.injuryboard.com In October of 2007 the North Carolina State Legislature allowed the state’s Medical Board to post information about medical malpractice cases on its website. It has taken almost a year for the Medical Board to decide on the specifics of which cases will be posted due to opposition from doctors and insurance […]

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http://www.marketwatch.com OLDWICK, N.J., Jul 25, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Falling medical malpractice premiums led to a 15% drop in net premiums written between 2006 and 2007 for a composite of captive insurance companies, but captives overall benefited from favorable underwriting trends, according to a new A.M. Best Co.’s special report in BestWeek U.S./Canada. Also, in […]