Denver Business Journal – by Bob Mook http://www.bizjournals.com The co-sponsor of a proposal that would raise the caps on medical malpractice lawsuits said Wednesday he would ask the House Judiciary Committee to delay a vote on the bill to work out some issues that doctors raised about the legislation. Senate Bill 164, sponsored by Sen. […]

By Dr. MICHAEL LYNCH http://www.concordmonitor.com I am an emergency physician. I care for about 5,000 patients a year. I have been practicing for 12 years and thus have cared for roughly 60,000 patients. I receive deep satisfaction from my job and the privilege of the “laying on of hands” as the physician-patient relationship is called […]

Elgin County, St. Thomas will pay family physicians about $33,000 per doctor they draw. By JOHN MINER, SUN MEDIA In the fierce competition for medical staff, Elgin County and St. Thomas are turning to their family physicians with an offer of $33,000 for every new doctor they bring to town. The city, county and the […]

http://www.bradenton.com Floridians have been served notice again that the state’s doctor shortage looms large over our health care system. Just a few days after the president of the Florida Medical Association sounded a dire warning about the “critical” physician deficit, Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg was forced to stop taking trauma patients due to […]

Bradley Vasoli http://www.thebulletin.us Public officials and medical practitioners are pointing out a trend in Pennsylvania’s community of physicians that they say promises to shrink it considerably in the near term: It’s aging quickly. The Pennsylvania Medical Society (PMS) is stressing the decline in the number of direct patient care physicians working in the state, whom […]

http://www.businesswire.com OLDWICK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to A- (Excellent) from B++ (Good) and assigned an issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-â€? to Connecticut Medical Insurance Company (CMIC) (Glastonbury, CT). The outlook for the FSR has been revised to stable from positive, and the outlook assigned to the ICR […]

By Gazette News Services http://www.billingsgazette.net CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Legislature has passed a bill aimed at luring more doctors to the state. The bill that now heads to Gov. Dave Freudenthal would create a grant program through the state Department of Health to recruit more doctors. The bill would allow physicians and hospitals searching for […]

Steve Horrell http://www.goedwardsville.com With a new mediation rule in place now for Madison County, every civil case under $50,000 dollars will go to arbitration and every medical malpractice and nursing home case will go to mediation. Participants in other types of civil suits can use a mediator if the parties agree to it. “Nobody’s right […]

http://www.thedenverchannel.com DENVER, Colo. — Colorado doctors are fighting a state bill that would raise caps on medical malpractice damages. SB 164 has already passed in the Senate and will be heard for the first time in the House this week.Supporters argued that it gives patients injured by careless doctors fair compensation by raising the cap […]