- Feb 8, 2001
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Listening to talk radio this morning and they had on a person talking about the health care industry. The typical general practicioner pays out about 10k a year for medical malpractice insurance, while a specialist like a neuro-surgeon will pay between 80-100k a year. Geriatric specialists can't even get insurance in the states that are considered crisis states (18 at the moment).
They blamed this on the insanely large jury awards as well as treatment(pro bono) of uninsured patients....Case in point the person that got hit in the head with the hockey puck, she got a cat scan right away, but still died. Her family is sueing the hospital. while any competent jury(people that are the least informed members of society as they have never read a newspaper or watched a news show and thus have never heard of a trial) will know that it is not the hospitals fault. The hospital still has to tie up resources into representing a defense team to insure their victory...
Premiums are at 1.4 mill in NJ.
They blamed this on the insanely large jury awards as well as treatment(pro bono) of uninsured patients....Case in point the person that got hit in the head with the hockey puck, she got a cat scan right away, but still died. Her family is sueing the hospital. while any competent jury(people that are the least informed members of society as they have never read a newspaper or watched a news show and thus have never heard of a trial) will know that it is not the hospitals fault. The hospital still has to tie up resources into representing a defense team to insure their victory...
Premiums are at 1.4 mill in NJ.