Sentences with phrase «most malpractice insurance»

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A life of being on - call, getting up at all hours, missing family events, paying crazy malpractice insurance, etc are not, for the most part, done by people who want to do harm.

In contrast, OB's are required to carry insurance and as a result, most lawyers will take on a malpractice case if the damages are likely to be adequate to cover the cost of pursuing it.

This requires them to continually participate in continuing education experiences, purchase the most up - to - date professional texts, purchase malpractice insurance, and renew their certification at least every 5 years.

Most of us carry our medical and malpractice insurance through the A.V.M.A..

Because the treatment of hybrids is not covered under malpractice insurance, most veterinarians will not treat them.

For some time, law practice expert Ed Poll has been blogging about the California Bar's efforts to force lawyers to procure malpractice insurance, most recently by requiring lawyers to disclose to clients their lack of malpractice insurance.

However, the most likely scenario when shopping for a malpractice insurance policy for a virtual law firm is that the software and / or hardware that you depend on may not be covered in the standard policies provided by malpractice insurance carriers.

Malpractice insurance is the most important investment for any new law firm.

That information includes, most notably, the types of structures they work in, whether they have malpractice insurance, and the succession planning they have in place.

The most common types of insurance agent and broker malpractice claims include:

Diamond specializes in all areas of litigation, from the simplest to the most complex matters, including, but not limited to, personal injury, products liability, medical and legal malpractice, construction, intellectual property, maritime, matrimonial, employment discrimination and insurance and commercial litigation.

In Mr. Spence's case, his malpractice insurance is higher than most first - year solos» because he practices patent law, an expensive area of the law to cover.

The agency specializes in all areas of litigation, from the simplest to the most complex matters, including personal injury, products liability, medical and legal malpractice, labor law / construction matters, intellectual property, commercial, maritime, matrimonial, and insurance law litigation.

The argument that «actual and potential jury awards of noneconomic damages (such as pain and suffering) are a key factor (perhaps the most important factor) behind the unavailability and un-affordability of medical malpractice insurance in Florida» is unsupported.

«The most recent records and reports of the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, and the annual reports of medical malpractice insurers, confirm that not only has the number of insurers providing medical malpractice insurance coverage increased,... the profits would probably shock most concerneInsurance Regulation, and the annual reports of medical malpractice insurers, confirm that not only has the number of insurers providing medical malpractice insurance coverage increased,... the profits would probably shock most concerneinsurance coverage increased,... the profits would probably shock most concerned.»

Savings from caps have led to huge insurance industry profits, which «the insurance industry should pass... onto Florida physicians in the form of reduced malpractice insurance premiums, and it should no longer be necessary to continue punishing those most seriously injured by medical negligence by limiting their noneconomic recovery to a fixed, arbitrary amount.»

Insurance defense attorney Robert Baker, who defended malpractice suits for more than 20 years, told Congress in 1994, «As a result of the caps on damages, most of the exceedingly competent plaintiff's lawyers in California simply will not handle a malpractice case... There are entire categories of cases that have been eliminated since malpractice reform was implemented in California.»

Medical malpractice damage caps absolutely protect bad doctors (more - accurately the insurance companies, as they actually pay out the claims), and unfortunately, at the expense of victims who've actually suffered the most.

About a week ago, The Legal Intelligencer made an heroic effort to unpack insurance data to see the effect of the changes in medical malpractice liability law from a decade ago, but ran into a serious problem: those very same medical insurance companies that cry the loudest about the need for tort reform also refuse to make public the data that would tell us the most about the malpractice system.

Sometimes a trusted family member or friend is the most logical and appropriate choice, there are times when engaging a professional with oversight and insurance / malpractice to protect the elder is the better choice.

In most jurisdictions lawyers are not required to have malpractice insurance, and even if they do, the coverage can be substantially less than LAWPRO's standard coverage or $ 1 million per claim, $ 2 million in the aggregate.

Big corporations and insurance companies try to limit their damages, but our lawyers have the resources and the trial experience to stand up for your rights in the most grave and severe personal injury and medical malpractice lawsuits, and match or exceed the resources of powerful defendants as we have done in countless cases.

To critics, non-econ caps are both ineffective (since they will not lower malpractice premiums or the cost of health insurance coverage) and unfair (since they reduce damage awards to the most severely injured, and disproportionately affect women, children, and the elderly).

These changes were most likely the result of liability concerns on the part of the malpractice insurance carriers in Alaska.