By Dan Walters – Bee Columnist http://www.sacbee.com The Capitol’s “tort war” began in 1975 when doctors, hospitals and other purveyors of medical care pressured the Legislature and then-Gov. Jerry Brown into placing a cap on “pain and suffering” compensation in medical malpractice lawsuits. They cited a steep increase in malpractice insurance premiums. The medicos blitzed […]

BY NICHOLE AKSAMIT AND ELIZABETH AHLIN WORLD-HERALD BUREAU http://www.omaha.com

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Jim McPherson http://www.azcentral.com My heart skipped a beat when I saw that a trial lawyer was writing about Arizona’s physician shortage (“Vanishing physician scenario is a myth,” Arizona Republic, February 4, 2007).

WASHINGTON, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following statement was released today by Cecil B. Wilson, M.D., Board Chair of the American Medical Association: “Over the next eight years, Medicare payments to physicians will be slashed nearly 40 percent, while practice costs increase about 20 percent. Without adequate funding, physicians cannot make needed investments in health information technology […]

MARKET WIRE The Insurance professionals only source for News J. M. Woodworth Risk Retention Group (RRG) has registered with the New York Insurance Department to offer medical malpractice insurance to physicians and surgeons in the State, Sanford D. Elsass, President and CEO of The Uni-Ter Group, announced. Uni-Ter manages the Company under contract to the […]

By Becky Johnson • Staff Writer http://www.smokymountainnews.com

http://www.daily-journal.com Health care today is one of the real growth sectors of the economy. As we have reported before, the additional jobs created in medicine account for all the new jobs in the country since 2000. Take away all the added jobs in health care and the net growth is zero.

http://www.delawareonline.com It’s been nearly two years since a panel of experts from the state’s business and medical community began exploring the idea of creating a self-insurance “risk retention group” that would allow Delaware doctors to own and operate their own insurance companies. Self-management and oversight by the physicians, of course, could drastically lower premiums charged […]