Searching For New York’s Medical Malpractice Crisis
Remember the regular hand wringing about New York’s medical malpractice “crisis”? Doctors were said to be leaving the state in droves. OB/GYNs were dropping the OB. Neurosurgeons were retiring early. Hospitals and medical liability insurance companies in the state suggested they were close to bankruptcy…all because of the dreaded plaintiff’s lawyers and the “jackpot justice” [...]
Alternatives to Tort “Reform” That Don’t Hurt Med Mal Victims
The State of New Jersey has taken an innovative approach to addressing a longstanding concern of physicians in high-risk practices. According to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, a recently passed bill would require the state’s doctors and lawyers to each contribute toward a state fund that would ease the relatively higher medical malpractice insurance premiums paid [...]
Trimming the Fat on the Medical Malpractice Beast
Yesterday, I gave a presentation to a roomful of medical records adminstrators at a conference put on by Lorman. The topic was Medical Records Law in New York, and I spoke about handling requests for records, via HIPAA-compliant authorizations, subpoenas, and otherwise.
As I prepared for my talk, I thought back to the barely fathomable amounts [...]