Posts tagged "New York"

Side Note: New York physicians pay some of the highest medical liability insurance rates in the country and something has to give. Will New York be the next state to join the coveted group of 35 states that currently have some sort of med mal insurance award caps? Could it be? If Governor Cuomo has […]

side note: New York’s medical malpractice insurance crisis seems to have no solution on the horizon, yet many, many people are offering their advice. Newswise — Lee Goldman, M.D., executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences and dean of the faculties of medicine and health sciences at Columbia University testified today on medical malpractice […]

side note: This is an interesting article, mainly due to the fact that it is discussing tort within the framework of New York, which has a well-documented debacle of a medical malpractice insurance environment. High taxes help make New York an expensive place to do business. A new report argues convincingly that costly malpractice litigation […]

side note: On Aug. 11, New York Gov. David Patterson signed a bill that effectively froze medical malpractice insurance rates for another year. Gov. Patterson signed a similar bill in 2008. This second rate freeze only further muddles the state’s already complicated medical liability climate. New York is considered one of the most “messed-up” states […]

side note: It will be interesting to see what develops in the state of New York b/c of this. There are some serious Medical Malpractice Insurance issues in that state that really need to be addressed by the government. BusinessInsurance.comby Roberto Ceniceros NEW YORK—Acting New York Insurance Superintendent Kermitt Brooks on Wednesday said he will […]