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 […]

BY Dennis Conrad Associated Press http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com From 2000 to 2004, few medical malpractice insurance claims in Illinois and six other states closed with a payout to the person seeking compensation, with most settling before a trial, according to a Justice Department report released Sunday. In Illinois, where the debate over medical malpractice reform has caused […]

By John Leyne BBC News, Amman For the people of Iraq, it may be the ultimate nightmare. The ordeal continues for victims of Iraq’s violence when they are taken to hospital. Most of the best medical staff have left after being targeted by insurgents. Many have fled the country just in the last few months. […]

The Insurance professionals only source for News The majority of medical malpractice claims in a study of seven states were closed without any compensation paid to those claiming a medical injury, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. BJS conducted a study of medical malpractice insurance claims that were closed from 2000 […]

By Adam Jadhav ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH http://www.stltoday.com An Illinois House committee hearing this week could bring some life back to the medical malpractice debate that for several years dominated Metro East politics. Supporters and critics have strong opinions on a bill that would establish a pretrial hearing on the merits of any expert witness in […]

Novel Approach to Physician Education Makes Doctors More Likely to Address Domestic Violence in Their Patients http://www.prnewswire.com Physicians are more likely to recognize, validate, assess and respond to suspected domestic (intimate partner) violence in their patients after participating in an Internet course on the subject, according to new study results reported this week at the […]

http://home.businesswire.com Fitch Ratings upgrades the Illinois Health Facilities Authority’s approximately $15 million revenue refunding bonds, series 1998 (Midwest Physician Group Ltd.) to ‘BB+’ from ‘BB’. The Rating Outlook is Stable.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com This April, entrepreneur, neurosurgeon Jeffery Segal, MD, FACS, and founder of Medical Justice Services, celebrates five years of relentlessly and successfully defending physicians against frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits – a defense that often includes taking the first punch. “Physicians are healers, and not fighters,” said Segal, a board-certified neurosurgeon. Waiting it out and hoping […]

Florida Nurses Association Endorses New Insurer http://www.sys-con.com Sophia Palmer Nurses Risk Retention Group, Inc. will offer malpractice insurance to Florida nurses in partnership with the Florida Nurses Association (FNA), Barbara Lumpkin, RN, FNA Associate Executive Director, and Kathi Cavallo, RN, CLC, President, Uni-Ter Risk Management Services, announced. The newly formed Risk Retention Group (RRG) was […]