http://www.emediawire.com/ Responding to market trends including an aging U.S. population and a predicted cardiologist shortage in coming years, physician recruiting firm LocumTenens.com today announced the launch of its cardiology division. (To search for cardiology jobs, visit LocumTenens.com.) “Healthcare industry data indicate that by 2015 there will be a marked shortage of certain medical specialists, cardiologists […]

http://home.businesswire.com The Doctors Company, the nation’s leading physician-owned medical malpractice insurance carrier, is pleased to announce an average premium reduction of nearly 8 percent in Ohio beginning May 1, 2007 for new policyholders and July 1, 2007 for those renewing their coverage. “This rate reduction is further evidence of The Doctors Company’s commitment to Ohio […]

By Sean Murphy http://www.insurancejournal.com Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has vetoed a sweeping civil justice measure that would have changed the way negligence and medical malpractice lawsuits are filed and litigated in state courts. Despite his veto of the so-called “tort reform” bill, Henry said he planned to work with lawmakers on a compromise measure to […]

BY MIKE FITZGERALD News-Democrat http://www.belleville.com Metro-east physicians and hospital executives are nervously watching the progress of a legislative proposal to allow juries to award damages to plaintiffs for “grief, sorrow and mental anguish” in wrongful death cases. A bill setting up this new category of damage awards, in addition to the category already in place […]

By By DON JEPSEN for the Mail Tribune http://www.mailtribune.com State Sen. Alan Bates, D-Ashland, a physician, plans to offer an amendment to a bill subsidizing medical malpractice premiums that would continue to cover primary care and OB/GYN physicians in Ashland. This amendment and another that keeps Grants Pass doctors eligible for the subsidy program are […]

By M.J. Ellington http://www.decaturdaily.com Active doctors have malpractice insurance but not much time to volunteer. Retired doctors have the time but not the insurance. But a bill in the Legislature would help doctors who volunteer for free clinics get malpractice insurance, encouraging retired physicians to donate their time. “If it comes to volunteering or losing […]

By MARY JO LAYTON STAFF WRITER http://www.northjersey.com If you want to see Ridgewood gynecologist Ruth J. Schulze, you’ll have to sign a contract promising never to sue her for malpractice. The veteran physician and a dozen other gynecologists in New Jersey require the contracts as a condition of treatment. Schulze sees it as the only […]

William I. Weston, J.D. Hollywood http://www.sun-sentinel.com In response to a letter about medical malpractice, the issue of malpractice claims is a bit more complex. First, many states tried mandatory arbitration and it worked well. I know because I was deeply involved as an arbitrator in one such program. However, it was the medical profession in […]

By JESSICA LONG San Diego Business Journal Staff Home Treating patients who speak little-to-no English costs individual physician practices on average $19,000 a year, according to a report released here last week. Philadelphia-based American College of Physicians, a national organization representing 120,000 internal medicine physicians, related subspecialists and medical students released that finding last week […]