by John O’Brien http://www.legalnewsline.com Indiana’s Supreme Court recently decided that a policyholder from a failed insurance company may recover from the Indiana Insurance Guaranty Association for lost wages of a deceased claimant up to the point of payment. The case involved the 1997 death of James Brown, who passed away after spending three days at […]

By ADAM LONGO 6 News Reporter http://www.wate.com A political battle in Nashville is pitting state doctors on one side and trial lawyers on the other. For years, the two groups have fought over medical malpractice reform. Now, legislation to cool the issue is moving ahead. A bill unanimously passed the State Senate that tackles medical […]

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 Jose F. Arrascue http://www.sun-sentinel.com South Florida Sun-Sentinel readers of this newspaper may remember seeing stories about some emergency patients being transferred from Palm Beach County to Broward County due to a lack of capacity to treat them in Palm Beach, where they should be treated. Understandably, Broward’s doctors aren’t happy about the practice, and […]

BY KAREN KARASZKIEWICZ, TIMES STAFF WRITER http://www.carrollcountytimes.com When Dr. John E. Steers began practicing medicine in 1971, his malpractice insurance premium cost him $1,471 a year. By the time he retired in 2005, the Westminster general surgeon was paying close to $75,000 for insurance to protect himself against potential lawsuits. Other overhead costs, such as […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]