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A comment on Medical Malpractice Reform: The True Numbers?

jim oh — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:33:04 GMT

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this is the yellowbook listings for palm beach neurosurgeons. please notice that very few are neurosurgeons- they are neurologists. Look up Pohokee Ob's. My sis in laws OB from Miami moved to Mississippi. The article that you sent me mentions a neurosurgical case in Jupiter that was transfered to Gainsville !! They had to drive thru Orlando to get there.

people in the know head to
NY when they need brain work

A comment on Medical Malpractice and Money

jim ohare — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:09:08 GMT

Thanks for your comment Ed:

A jury of peers is meant for the defendant isnt itand not the accuser?. Lets say you pick a doc, I pick a doc and they agree on the 3 doc. we each bring an expert for liability causation and damages. we each get 2 hrs to x examine.

last year 700 mill spent on medmal, 190m of that expenses. 510 mil in indemnity, maybe 175 mil of that in atty fees and another 75 mil for your costs. So 440 mil of the 700 mil does not go to the injured. Not good and a problem.

Do you think that it would be fair to have peers decide if the roux en y nissan fundoplication was done correctly, or have the guy flipping burgers to weigh the complexities?

Bad docs have to go. At Physicians Ins co - we have defined a way to target the best risks. Turns out that 16% of the docs cause 83% of the claims.

How about all docs need insurance to practice? regards Jim vp medmal claims

The DOH is very tough on docs

A comment on Medical Malpractice and Money

jim ohare — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:09:03 GMT

A comment on Medical Malpractice Reform: The True Numbers?

Ed Normand — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:44:33 GMT

Jim:

I Googled Palm Beach County Neurosurgeons and came up with an article stating there are 22 neurosurgeons in that County. See for yourself: More ...

That still may be too few but the kind of hyperbole that says there are only 2 neurosurgeons in the county when there are really 22 is what makes of most of the substance of the tort reform mantra. That is like each state's tort reformers claiming all the doctors are leaving the state. Well, if they are leaving every state where are they going? Not out of the country. Last I checked we have more foreign physicians coming to the U.S. to practice every day.

A comment on Medical Malpractice and Money

Ed Normand — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:36:59 GMT

Jim, I am a little puzzled by your comment because it refers to arbitration and then says "jury of peers". Do you mean a jury of the health care provider’s peers or peers of the victim in an arbitration process? If it is a jury of the health care provider's peers that is the fox guarding the henhouse. I think that is part of the problem we have now in the Medical profession failing to police itself and failing to discipline health care providers that repeatedly harm others. We have surgeons in Orlando that have committed multiple wrong site surgeries and nothing happens. Then they repeatedly hurt patients and the malpractice rates rise for all. If they would get tough on bad doctors then there would be less malpractice. It is well known that most of the malpractice is caused by a small percentage of health care providers. By the way, the Florida Bar is very tough on bad lawyers. Many lawyers are disbarred or suspended each month and rightly so. Maybe that is part of the reason why there are fewer legal malpractice claims than medical malpractice claims.

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jim — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:53:29 GMT

Arent you arguing for a change in forum to arbitration? More money to the claimant, quicker process, lower costs, jury of peers. Why not? I read today in Florida that 3336 med mal claims were settled in 2008 for 700 million of which 189 million was costs and 511 million in indemnity.

You should be clear that the cap is only for pain ans suffering, all other causes of action are not capped. Past and future economoic loss, past and futire medical costs- all w/o caps.

Re limits is attorney fees- The best TT firms have their clients sign a waiver to get around the statute. This is a loophole predesigned prior to the 2003 Florida tort reform. Great cases always get referred to the best TT firms w/o much consideration given to the fees at endgame.
regards
jim vp medmal claims

A comment on Medical Malpractice Reform: The True Numbers?

Anwer Kamal Pasha — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:09:46 GMT

I am surprised that there are much awards for doctors so they can face a sue but do you know that there is no treatment for coma,PVS,MCS and Locked in Syndrome yet and most of the medicine given to these patients are just traditional and without any result.

A comment on Medical Malpractice Reform: The True Numbers?

Jim O'Hare VP medmal claims — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:32:31 GMT

Nice article- a few things. Nica is rarely used and infants need to meet specific criteria to be considered. birth weight for instance.

All docs need to have insurance to practice. I need insurance to drive my car. No insurance = no practice. Consider the effect. Years ago Docs went bare due to premium costs, that argument is gone in this soft market. Premiums are a problem for some specialties. There are counties in Fl w/o ob's to deliver. I believe Palm beach county has 2 neurosurgeons. My friends OB from Miami moved to Mississippi due to the litigous climate!! yikes.

RE caps- insurance companies need math to calculate premiums. Pain and suffering has no measurement. It is subjective. We still use the based on 1 to 10- how much does it hurt system. Trying to use objective means ( cash ) to sooth a subjective concept is impossible. How much does a pound of sunshine cost? A cap figure can be used to make a calculation. Infinity renders all math useless. The cap is only for non economics. The cap figure can be debated, arguing that it isn't necessary, not so much.
regards Jim

A comment on Medical Malpractice Reform: The True Numbers?

Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:39:35 GMT

Today's medical professional liability system is too adversarial and too expensive. There are alternatives. More at More ...