Norcal Mutual Insurance Company, a leading Medical Malpractice Insurance Carrier, has issued a statement on their efforts to support policyholders offering medical services in Haiti. Norcal will extend malpractice insurance coverage to physicians and surgeons who wish to travel to Haiti to provide volunteer charitable medical services. Coverage will be provided for claims instituted in [...]

Recent economic woes have had an unanticipated effect on healthcare. Doctors who took large losses when the stock market stumbled have found themselves having to rethink their retirement plans, and some of them are hoping to return to their role as healthcare providers. That may not be as easy as they originally thought. The obvious [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Presidio Insurance Solutions Expands into Pacific Northwest Presidio Insurance Solutions is pleased to announce the addition of Susan Doherty as Senior Account Executive for Washington, Oregon and Northern California. Presidio now provides outstanding insurance services to physicians, surgeons and healthcare groups in those parts of the Pacific Northwest. We’re very excited about [...]

President Obama has called upon all citizens to rise to the challenges facing our nation.  He has consistently said that the government can assist, but it’s up to us to make the necessary changes.  Part of what it takes to make change is tightening the belt to pay for the witless excesses of the past.  [...]

A growing number of physicians across the nation are requiring their patients to agree that they will not post negative statements about them on the Internet.  Medical Justice, founded by Dr. Jeffrey Segal, which has some 2000 members at this time, prescribes this waiver as a method of protecting their practices against false allegation.  The [...]