Sentences with phrase «paid malpractice claims»

They represent 8 percent of all paid malpractice claims.

In fact, the percentage of doctors who get disciplined or pay a malpractice claim is four times less in some states than the percentage in other states.

Not exact matches

His insurance will pay out a lot of malpractice claims.

In a letter obtained by Newsday, Armor says it wants the county to pay for its services in full within 30 days, indemnify it against any future malpractice claims and stop talking about it in the media.

Anesthesia malpractice is the twelfth highest medical specialty when it comes to the percentage of physicians within the specialty who have paid claims in Massachusetts.

A medical malpractice claim involving negligence on behalf of a nurse almost always involves compensation that is far beyond what a nurse or doctor would be able to pay an injured party.

In fact, a study by the Nurses Service Organization found that $ 90 million was paid out in nursing malpractice claims over a recent five year period.

And where once clients might not have pursued a malpractice claim, with rates what they are, clients are more adamant than ever about getting what they paid for.

Apparently, Coudert has since lost two lawsuits, including a $ 2.5 million malpractice suit, and claims it does not have the money to pay the judgment.

«I am sad to have to bring a legal malpractice claim against ICIT's former counsel, but I am sadder still for the thousands of Hoosiers who are struggling to pay health care bills as a result of such negligence.»

All damages in medical malpractice claims involving government - operated medical providers are paid through this fund — up to the statutory cap of $ 500,000.

Your Central New York medical malpractice lawyers, Michaels & Smolak, have a quiz for you: What percent of doctors do you think end up paying 32 % of all medical malpractice claims?

Nearly $ 4 billion is paid out in medical malpractice claims each year in the United States.

We work on a contingency fee basis, we have been filing medical malpractice claims across the US for over 15 years and we pay a great deal of attention to the preparation stage of all the claims that we work on.

In fact, California's medical malpractice insurance industry has become so bloated due to this cap, that «as little as 2 or 3 percent of premiums are used to pay claims» and «the state's biggest medical malpractice insurer, Napa - based The Doctors Company, spent only 10 percent of the $ 179 million collected in premiums on claims in 2009.»

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.

One thing to think about is having a loser pays approach follow some sort of merits screening process as some states use for malpractice cases, so that the loser pays approach would kick in if such a screening panel found no basis for the claim.

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In that case, the plaintiff argued that the defendant had not incurred any costs in his successful defence of a medical malpractice claim because those costs had been paid on his behalf by the Canadian Medical Protective Association.