E&O Insurers Uneasy About Managed Care

The combination of uncertainty over the future of the Patients Rights Bill and declining capacity for managed care professional liability insurance illustrates a system on the road to crisis, underwriting executives say.

"We, in managed care, are already punch drunk and staggering. And now they hit us with a patients rights bill," remarked Kimber Lantry, director of programs for TIG Specialty Insurance Services headquartered in Irving, Texas. "Is there any wonder there is a crisis in manage care liability?" he asked.

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