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Happy New Year from Cunningham Group!
Happy New Year from everyone here at Cunningham Group! We hope that you were able to enjoy the holidays and spend some time with those you love. While we enjoyed the holidays, we are glad to be back at work. Med mal insurance is all we do –and we specialize in it because we love […]
How Does Your Practice Handle Patients Who Want to Negotiate Bills?
Times are tough. And, physicians are seeing more and more patients having a hard time paying their bills. As you are probably well aware, many patients have taken to calling the office asking to negotiate their bills. How does you office handle this? Do you have a formal policy in place to determine which bills […]
A Plan to Handle Medical Malpractice Similar to Workers Comp
side note: This is a very interesting proposal by the James Madison Institute because they are addressing the cost of defensive medicine in an intellectually honest way. The report acknowledges that caps on non-economic damages are effective at lowering medical malpractice insurance rates, but not at lowering the instances of defensive medicine, which add to […]
ATRA Releases Annual List of Juducial Hellholes, Motivates Medical Malpractice Reform
side note: This week, the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) released its annual Judicial Hellholes Report. Since 2002, the Judicial Hellholes Report has documented in annually published reports various abuses within the civil justice system, focusing primarily on jurisdictions where courts are radically out of balance. This list has been an invaluable tool in educating […]
Texas Tort Reform Doesn't Lower Cost of Healthcare; Does Lower Cost of Medical Malpractice Insurance
side note: Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen recently released a study that analyzed data from Texas, which in 2003 imposed some of the strictest liability caps in the country. While medical malpractice litigation plummeted dramatically since the caps were imposed, residents of Texas are still paying as much for healthcare as any other state in […]
MACM: Mississippi Doesn't Need More Medical Malpractice Tort Reform
side note: The below article is very interesting in the fact that Mississippi’s largest medical malpractice insurer, Medical Assurance Company of Mississippi (MACM), has gone on the record as saying the state does not need additional tort reforms. That’s right, a medical malpractice insurance company is saying no more tort reform is necessary. Specifically, the […]
EHRs Raise Physician Liability According to New White Paper
Thanks to the federal government, Electronic health records (EHRs) are being used more and more with each passing day. No longer considered ahead of the curve, but the new standard of practice, EHRs are proving to add another layer of doctor liability to our already litigious times. With the newly created market and demand for […]
Wyoming Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates Threatened by Record Verdict
side note: Physicians in Wyoming pay moderate medical malpractice insurance rates. They may not be as affordable as the medical malpractice insurance rates in neighboring Idaho, but Wyoming has never had to worry about winding up on the American Tort Reform Association’s Annual Judicial Hellholes List. Unfortunately, after the recent case discussed in the below […]
More On an Alternative Florida Med Mal System
The James Madison Institute just released an interesting study entitled, Alternative Solutions to Florida’s Medical Malpractice System. The report begins by outlining nothing new: a flawed Florida tort system, physician liability insurance cases that take years to resolve, and awards that are dramatically inconsistent. It describes a system that discourages the reporting of errors and, […]
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