Malpractice Insurance

Doctors postpone proposed surgery slowdown to protest malpractice premiums

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, October 29th, 2004

Four Washington County, Maryland, doctors have agreed to delay indefinitely their plan to halt non-emergency surgery to protest a 33% increase in medical malpractice insurance premiums.

After a meeting with Governor Robert Ehrlich the doctors said they would ask other doctors at Washington County Hospital Association to follow their lead in order to give the governor and General Assembly leaders time to seek a legislative solution to the rapid increase in premiums they say has produced a healthcare crisis in Maryland.

"The governor has asked us to stay at work. We have heard him," Dino J. Delaportas, MD, chief of staff at the hospital, said.

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Source: Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly (2004-10-29)

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