Malpractice fees double for Ontario's ob/gyns

P Sullivan - 2000 - Can Med Assoc
The Canadian Medical Protective Association warned last spring that some physicians in
Ontario faced huge increases in their malpractice insurance fees (see CMAJ 2000; 163 [2] …

Saskatoon doctors make a house call to MARS

G Basky - 2000 - Can Med Assoc
The Canadian Medical Protective Association warned last spring that some physicians in
Ontario faced huge increases in their malpractice insurance fees (see CMAJ 2000; 163 [2] …

Will Your Lawyer Deliver Your Next Baby-The Effect of Raising Malpractice Insurance Costs on OB/GYNs

S Imershein - Health L. & Pol'y, 2009 - HeinOnline
Now let us take a group of women in labor. Discovering a fetal heart rate abnormality might
show us an existing problem or a potential problem. We are talking about serious long term …

Tough choices come November

CJ Lockwood - Contemporary OB/GYN, 2002 - search.proquest.com
No one in Congress seems to have gotten the message that professional liability reform is
the top priority of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the …

CMPA fees for Ontario doctors up 13.6%, decreases in rest of country

B Sibbald - 2000 - Can Med Assoc
Ontario physicians are taking money out of their share of the Canadian Medical Protective
Association legal settlement reserves to prevent huge fee increases. This means the …

Malpractice: Close-up on a crisis

B Weiss - Medical Economics, 2003 - elibrary.ru
Like many physicians around the country, New Jersey doctors have been battered by huge
increases in professional liability insurance premiums. Many are leaving the state, giving up …

[PDF][PDF] Medical Malpractice: Background and Legislation in the 112th Congress

B Webel, VS Chu, D Newman - 2011 - everycrsreport.com
As a policy area, concerns about medical malpractice have often involved issues related to
the market for provider liability insurance, the prevalence of malpractice in the health care …

[PDF][PDF] Edwards Urges Tort Reform, Universal Coverage

J FRIEDEN - Ob. Gyn. News, 2007 - cdn.mdedge.com
WASHINGTON—According to Democratic presidential candidate and malpractice attorney
John Edwards, the best way to solve the malpractice insurance crisis is to put the onus on …

[PDF][PDF] Legislators in DC Battle Over Damage Caps

J FRIEDEN - Ob. Gyn. News, 2005 - cdn.mdedge.com
The District of Columbia is the lat-est in a growing number of jurisdictions trying to combat
rising malpractice insurance premiums among physicians, as legislators there battle over …

$10-Million malpractice award largest ever

L Gagnon - CMAJ, 2004 - Can Med Assoc
The largest medical malpractice award in Canada is “an isolated case” and will not set a
precedent for similar malpractice cases in the future, says the president of the Society of …