HR 4600 Will Harm Patients & Enrich Only Insurers The real answer to skyrocketing insurance premiums, which are striking across all lines of insurance, is to regulate the insurers' pricing and accounting practices so that investment losses cannot be passed onto policyholders. Congress should not blame the victim for a crisis created by insurance companies....read more ...read more How to Address the Insurance and Malpractice Crises Facing the Nation
Recommendations for Insurance Reform and Reducing Malpractice Complaint filed by FTCR, pursuant to Section 1861.05 of Proposition 103
Challenging request for increase in medical malpractice liability insurance rates filed by American Healthcare Indemnity & SCPIE Indemnity Co. (11/12/02) Statement of Scott Olsen regarding his son Steven's Medical Malpratice Story - January 2003 Eleven years ago our son, Steven, was made blind and brain damaged by medical malpractice. Then he became a victim a second time of a law in California known as MICRA-the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975....read more Insurance Regulation, Not Malpractice Caps, Stabilize Doctors' Premiums FTCR compares the impact of the 1988 insurance reform (Proposition 103) on malpractice premiums, on the one hand, and the effect of 1975 restrictions on victims' recovery of non-economic damages (the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, or MICRA), on...read more Five Dangerous Myths About California's Medical Malpractice Restrictions California's system of capping injured patients' non-economic damages has not saved doctor's money, but it has been harmful and costly to patients....read more
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