Lojack For Surgeons, and Happy Medical Liability Executives
Florida’s medical malpractice liability insurers have been profiting for the past 6 years. New liability companies apparently can’t wait to write medical malpractice “products” there. Here is the News Press’s take on how robust Florida’s market for medical liability insurance has become. And as Alan Belsky points out in in his firm’s blawg, Maryland Malpractice [...]
My Suggestion For Reducing Costs Of Medical Malpractice
A Florida judge with diverticulitis trusted his surgeons to perform the surgery he needed in the proper manner. Unfortunately, his trust was misplaced, as they left a foot-long sponge inside his body. And to make matters worse, it took so long for his doctors to figure out what had happened that the sponge was literally [...]
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 [...]