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		<title>Student doctor donates bone marrow, extends a second chance.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[side note:  Yes, I know this doesn&#8217;t have much to do with medical malpractice insurance.  This story however involves a friend from childhood who I&#8217;m incredibly proud of!  Dr. Terry (still have a hard time saying that, let along typing it) did an amazing thing by donating bone marrow to a complete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verdicts could tap $90M from state medical malpractice insurance fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[side note:  Even while in police custody, the infamous fugitive Dr. Mark Weinberger is managing to bring harm to the citizens of Indiana. Experts fear that the 357 medical malpractice lawsuits that face Weinberger could end up costing the Indian state medical malpractice fund over 90 million dollars. The depletion of the Indiana state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymedicalmalpracticeinsurance.com/news/?p=1057</link>
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		<title>Suit challenges cap on pain and suffering Lower court&#8217;s decision cuts award for plaintiff in half, negates wife&#8217;s share</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Side note:  Medical malpractice reform law in the state of West Virginia is being tested in a closely watched case. A man who was treated in the City Hospital in the Eastern Panhandle claims that the drugs he was prescribed interacted with the medication that he was already taking to cause a condition called [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymedicalmalpracticeinsurance.com/news/?p=1053</link>
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		<title>Cincinnati Bengals criticized for medical handling of Rashad Jeanty, could result in a med-mal case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Side note:  Even the NFL is not immune to the threat of medical malpractice. Recently linebacker Rashad Jeanty was cut by the Cincinnati Bengals because he was not able to pass his physical. Jeanty’s agent claims that the reason his player is unable to pass his physical is do to a lingering  condition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymedicalmalpracticeinsurance.com/news/?p=1051</link>
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		<title>L.A. County supervisors want to see doctors&#8217; peer review documents from hospitals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[side note: Los Angeles County supervisors are requesting to see confidential medical records to determine if county doctors are performing up to acceptable standards. The request comes after a string of high-profile medical malpractice lawsuits cost L.A. county millions of dollars.
This move, by the L.A. county supervisors, has doctors and health care workers up in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymedicalmalpracticeinsurance.com/news/?p=1048</link>
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		<title>Kankakee County: Medical malpractice ruling stirs discord</title>
		<description><![CDATA[side note: The unpopular reversal of the Illinois medical malpractice reform law has become a hot topic in the upcoming, Nov. 2, Supreme Court retention elections. The Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch has parked a billboard truck in front Kankakee County Courthouse proclaiming the slogan &#8220;Good Judges Matter.&#8221; This display of dissatisfaction about the courts recent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymedicalmalpracticeinsurance.com/news/?p=1046</link>
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		<title>Differ On How To Improve Access To Medical Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[side note: Hospitals in Hawaii are facing delays in Medicaid reimbursements due to the state’s $86 million dollar budget shortfall. The budget deficit has become a hot topic in the democratic primary for governor.  Former mayor of Honolulu, Mufi Hannemann says that if elected he would mandate an audit of all federal spending. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymedicalmalpracticeinsurance.com/news/?p=1044</link>
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		<title>Medical malpractice debated while doctor shortage continues in N.J.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Side note: Doctors and key medical groups in New Jersey say the time for medical malpractice reform is now. They blame the state’s shortage of doctors on out of control medical malpractice litigation. Proponents of reform claim that the state’s current malpractice laws leave one of the state’s largest employers, the pharmaceutical companies, in jeopardy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymedicalmalpracticeinsurance.com/news/?p=1042</link>
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		<title>ProAssurance to Acquire American Physicians Service Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[side note: Similar to soft markets of years past, a consolidation is occuring in the medical professional liability insurance industry. Just a few weeks ago, The Doctors Company purchased American Physicians Capital (APCapital) and now ProAssurance is gobbling American Physicians Service Group. Is this a ghood thing for the industry?
ProAssurance Corp., headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymedicalmalpracticeinsurance.com/news/?p=1040</link>
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		<title>Even with malpractice insurance, doctors opt for expensive, defensive medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[side note:  This is unfortunately all too common among doctors in our country.  I&#8217;d say most, if not all people who want to end up in medicine get in for the right reasons:  they want to help people.  We live in a world however that is filled with lawsuits and lawyers&#8230;.that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymedicalmalpracticeinsurance.com/news/?p=1037</link>
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