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By Arthur D. Postal |
May 21, 2012
The medical-liability insurance industry has recently seen positive results and is working to minimize the “peaks and valleys” that it has historically seen, according to Brian K. Atchinson, the new president and chief executive officer of the Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA).
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By Arthur D. Postal PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 14, 2012
The medical-liability insurance industry has recently seen positive results and is working to minimize the “peaks and valleys” that it has historically seen, according to Brian K. Atchinson, the new president and chief executive officer of the Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA).
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
July 21, 2011
A medical-liability insurance trade group is praising the decision of the “gang of six” deficit-reduction panel to include a mandate in its plan for Congress to enact medical-malpractice reform.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 6, 2011
A state legislative group has asked a House committee to drop efforts to impose a “one-size-fits-all” standard on medical liability through federal legislation.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 7, 2011
Legislation setting federal limits on medical liability claims, modeled after California’s 30-year-old medical liability law, was introduced in the House late last Monday. It imposes a $250,000 cap on…
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
January 25, 2011
Legislation establishing federal limits on medical liability claims has been introduced in the House.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
January 24, 2011
An advocate for medical liability reform contended at a congressional hearing Thursday that there is “no question” that medical lawsuit abuse is “undermining both our health care system and the doctor-patient relationship.”
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
November 22, 2010
The Physician Insurers Association of America is pointing to conclusions by two bipartisan panels for medical malpractice reform as support for its views
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
September 14, 2010
A trade group representing medical professional liability insurance companies pointed to a new study indicating that physicians practicing defense medicine cost the U.S. health system $45 billion annually.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 14, 2010
P&C trade groups sent a letter to Senate members late Thursday asking them to reject an amendment to financial services reform legislation calling for repeal of the antitrust-protection afforded to health insurers under the McCarran-Ferguson Act.
