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New Report Shows Malpractice Insurers Price-Gouging Doctors and Driving Up Cost of Care
Published in Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly, June 7th, 2007
Written by former Missouri Insurance Commissioner Jay Angoff, the study is based on recent annual reports from the top 15 medical malpractice insurers as rated by A.M. Best. The report shows that these insurers artificially raised doctors' premiums and misled the public about the nature of malpractice claims -- asserting that a so-called "malpractice crisis" exists. The report puts the lie to that claim.
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