Nearly all physicians are doing the best they can for their patients.  We all hope you’re never served with a malpractice suit,  but sometimes things happen.  We’re all human beings.  When we make mistakes, we regret them and wish we could take them back.  We feel bad about the error and any consequences the patient [...]

Generally speaking, once a premium is paid to an insurance company, it is gone. The Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO,) which was founded in 1981, announced its first dividend to policyholders in the spring of this year, 2008. That’s quite a long time to wait for a dividend return, if it were just that [...]

A recent case involving a county-run nursing home in New Jersey brings up an important potential risk for physicians. In that facility, the subcontracted administrator, an employee of Innova, had withheld status reports from the supervising Freeholder board members for at least six months. Innova’s administrator, John Rosolia, defended that the facility was newly added, [...]

A jury in Bridgeport, CT, recently awarded just under $200,000 in damages to a woman who ended up with “horse teeth” after being promised a beautiful smile. The dentist, Darren Martinez, of Stamford, CT, defended himself by stating that he couldn’t be guilty of malpractice if he hadn’t (sic physically) harmed the woman. The jury [...]

We’ve posted articles here before about the importance of having the right to decide whether a case is settled or not. In those circumstances, the point was that you may not want the insurance company to settle, as that reflects badly on your practice and you may not feel you had done anything inappropriate. This [...]