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John Fielding,
CEO
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Growing payouts for medical malpractice claims nationally have led many insurance providers to raise their premiums or quit the market, Pulliam said.
President Bush called for a cap on medical malpractice awards yesterday as a way to control soaring premiums for medical liability insurance that have sparked protests from doctors in several states.
Its relationship to medical malpractice premiums is impacted because many insurance companies will cover only a small portion of a written policy and then sell the rest of the policy to a reinsurer.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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You are not required to maintain medical malpractice liability insurance Health care workers providing services under this contract shall be rendering personal services to the Government and shall be subject to day-to-day supervision and control by Government personnel.
Many in the insurance industry concluded that this structure when combined with the malpractice liability often encouraged physicians to prescribe services which were not medically necessary thereby leading to substantial increases in medical costs.
Overseas members are not covered by the BAcC's bloc Medical Malpractice and Public/Product Liability insurance policy and patients should assure themselves about insurance cover at the time of consulting an Overseas member.
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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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Bush waded into the thicket of medical malpractice insurance premiums once before.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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President Bush argued that this proposal would limit medical malpractice insurance premiums making health care safer and more affordable.
This unusual method of protesting soaring premiums for medical malpractice insurance is a dramatic example of American health care at a critical juncture.
Doctors are threatening to move to other states or end their practice of medicine because of rising medical malpractice insurance premiums.
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