If you're a doctor, you almost certainly carry medical malpractice insurance and know that costs seem to escalate year after year with no end in sight. One alternative to carrying malpractice insurance is to set in place a comprehensive asset…
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits are a Nightmare The biggest legal nightmare for any doctor is a medical malpractice lawsuit. However, there are other forms of litigation that can be initiated against physicians, and all of these can leave your assets vulnerable.…
Medical malpractice insurance is expensive. In fact, insurance premiums in some parts of the country have become so high, that many doctors have simply decided to skip buying insurance altogether in a phenomenon called “going bare.” Other doctors are choosing…
It’s not the sort of thing that you want to think about. But as a new survey shows, you definitely should look at preparing for it. We’re talking about medical malpractice lawsuits and the findings of a new survey just…
With the prospect of at least 10,000 medical malpractice lawsuits a year and the continuation of soaring insurance premiums, what's a physician to do? Medical Malpractice Costs By 2001, the total price tag for medical malpractice litigation in America zoomed…
Contributed by Rosie Cisneros Widow Maggie Smith and her two adult children were awarded $3.5 million by an Ohio jury in the their wrongful death lawsuit against Dr. Franklin Price. During the trial, they convinced a jury that Dr. Price…