The American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF) released its 2012/2013 Judicial Hellholes report last month. The annual release documents abuses of the civil justice system in jurisdictions the pro-tort reform group says are among the most unfair and out-of-balance in the nation. The ATRF is a branch of the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), an umbrella […]

This is a bizarre story in which a court in Marseilles, France has convicted a French psychiatrist, Daniele Cararelli, of manslaughter, b/c her patient committed a murder. Her patient murdered an 80 year old man 20 days after fleeing a consultation with the doctor. The doctor was sentenced to 1 year in prison and ordered […]

On Dec. 13, 2012, the Michigan Legislature passed two bills pertaining to medical professional liability. Senate Bill 115 caps recoverable non-economic damages at $280,000 and reduces the total amount of future damages to present values at a rate of 5 percent per year, compounded annually, for each year in which those damages accrue. Senate Bill […]

Well….I think we need to add another chore to the daily list of all doctors:  They should consider counseling patients against nonelectric razor use in pubic hair grooming to help prevent injury.  Why you ask?  Well, over the last 8 years, the amount of emergency room visits have increased 5 times!  You would assume that […]

Without appropriate health insurance coverage, hospitalization or a serious illness can be financially devastating, which can be a very hard lesson to learn. In today’s uncertain economy, with rampant unemployment and many companies looking for ways to trim expenses, there are far too many people that are vulnerable, should they or someone in their family […]

A pretty amazing story indeed……13 people with a form of cancer called multiple myeloma were treated with genetically engineered T-Cells and all 13 are now in remission or close to it.  “The fact we got a response in all 13, you can’t get better than that,” says James Noble, CEO of Adaptimmune in Abingdon, UK, which […]

The things you learn while surfing the web can either be extremely interesting……..or a complete waste of time!  This however falls into the first category and is something I have never thought about. Dr. Peter Wothers, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a University of Cambridge chemist, believes there will be a […]

A new charge that has recently been brought to the public’s attention will add a $63-per-head fee to help deal with the costs of covering folks with pre-existing conditions. When you start thinking of companies with thousands of employees, this new fee can appear daunting.  Especially in the current economic environment. From the MSN.com article: […]

Not insurance related at all…..but very cool and interesting.  This is a visit to the Bank of England bullion vault, which stores over $315 billion in gold.