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6/29/2006
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Dana Stinson - Seal Beach, CA
At the peak of her nursing career, Dana Stinson was permanently disabled by a disastrous surgery and the doctor's subsequent attempt to cover up her mistakes. Now, Dana will never care for another patient.
Dana went in for her yearly OB/GYN visit in 2002. Her doctor discovered abnormal growths in her uterus and...
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News Story
4/15/2006
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
In June of 2004, my father slipped into a coma. He had spent several days in Guam Memorial Hospital for what we were told was a bad case of pneumonia. My family was informed that if my father were ever to awaken out of the coma, his only chance for survival was to be transferred to a hospital with the capacity to provide the medical care he...
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3/18/2006
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Medical malpractice insurance companies have made an art form out of deflecting responsibility for doctors' high insurance rates. The insurers claim, in the court of public opinion, that if patients' legal rights are limited - typically with a cap on noneconomic damages in malpractice lawsuits - then doctors' premiums will drop......
News Story
1/9/2006
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The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York)
Medical malpractice insurance companies consistently inflated the amount they estimated they would pay out in claims between 1986 and 1994, then used the inflated figures to justify enormous increases in doctors' premiums, according to a study by the nonprofit Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights....
News Story
1/1/2006
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Big bonuses alleged for top executivesBelleville News-Democrat (Illinois)
The past five years were tough on Illinois doctors, but good for top executives of the state's leading provider of medical malpractice insurance, the former Illinois State Medical Society president contends.
According to Dr. Arvind Goyal, the nonprofit ISMIE Mutual Insurance...
News Release
12/29/2005
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Consumer Advocates Call for Investigation of Insurance Accounting Practices
Santa Monica, CA -- In official documents filed with state regulators and in statements to public officials, medical malpractice insurance companies consistently inflated the amount they estimated they would pay out in claims, according to a study released today by the...
Feature
12/29/2005
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
In this study, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) reviews the loss projections of medical malpractice insurance companies, beginning with the 'insurance crisis' of the mid-1980s. The data show that medical malpractice insurers have historically inflated their loss projections and then revised their reported losses downward in...
News Story
12/29/2005
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Study by Consumers Group Suggests Insurers Set Premiums Based on Market, Not Their Losses
The insurance industry has long argued that huge losses from malpractice suits -- now running more than $7 billion a year -- have forced it to hike malpractice premiums, which more than doubled last year in some cities and for some specialties.
But a new...
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38 Senators With Up to $13.4 Million in Pharmaceutical Stock Approve Drug Industry's Sweetheart Deal
12/22/2005
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Santa Monica, CA -- 38 U.S. Senators with up to $13.4 million in pharmaceutical holdings increased the value of their stock portfolios last night when they approved an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that immunizes drug makers from accountability to the public when they sell dangerous drugs and other products.
"When Senators can...
News Story
12/20/2005
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
The New York Times
WASHINGTON, DC -- Companies making vaccines to protect against biological agents or pandemic viruses would be shielded from lawsuits, even if they are negligent or reckless, under a provision inserted into a military spending bill by Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader.
Reviving the nation's flagging vaccine...
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