Malpractice Insurance News
Abbott Fails To Save Doctors From Levy
Wednesday December 17, 2003
The Health Minister appears to have lost a federal cabinet battle to abolish a levy on doctors for their malpractice insurance, throwing doubt over his ability to prevent mass resignations by public hospital specialists. After protracted talks, cabinet yesterday is believed to have knocked down Tony Abbott's proposal to make taxpayers meet the entire cost of a $480 million government guarantee to prevent the collapse of the doctor-controlled indemnity organisation United Medical Protection.Medical Indemnity: The Way Ahead
Saturday May 4, 2002
After the recriminations in the wake of the collapse of United Medical Protection it is time to look ahead. The Federal Government was caught unprepared in what briefly became a time of high, if somewhat artificial, drama this week when some doctors and surgeons suspended services for private patients. Calm has been restored by the Government's guarantee of malpractice insurance until June 30, but it must move with clarity and purpose towards long-term solutions.Insurers Run Scared From Health Rescue
Thursday May 2, 2002
The Federal Government's plan to rescue 32,000 doctors stranded without malpractice insurance appeared in disarray yesterday, when commercial insurers said they were reluctant to take over the cover.Doctors' Insurance Crisis: We Should All Be Very Afraid
Thursday April 25, 2002
John Howard's announcement on the Government's stance on United Medical Protection insurance (``Howard pulls plug on doctors' biggest insurer", Herald, April 24) should be creating great fears within us all. The ramifications are ex-tremely frightening we could be facing a mass walkout inMedico Exodus Endangers Indigenous Health Centres
Thursday April 25, 2002
The medical director of the nation's oldest Aboriginal Medical Service, at Redfern, yesterday warned of an impending crisis for indigenous health centres in NSW as the first of about 20 salaried doctors who will shortly be without medical malpractice insurance resigned.Alarm As Doctor Insurance Giant Told To Boost Reserves
Thursday February 28, 2002
Concerns about the future of Australia's major malpractice insurer for doctors heightened yesterday when it was ordered to raise its capital reserves by $30 million by June. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) said United Medical Protection, which covers 60 per cent of doctors,Medical Malpractice Awards Result In Reduced Health Care
Monday March 12, 1990
NEW YORK, Sunday: A $US1.35 million ($A1.78 million) award to a New York doctor with AIDS and legal action over a mix-up at a Manhattan sperm bank has again focused attention on the high cost in the US of medical malpractice awards. The case involving Dr Veronica Prego, who has fought sincDoctors Wooed With Low Malpractice Premiums
Tuesday February 23, 1988
Australian medical defence unions - principally the 13,000-member Australasian Medical Defence Union and the 7,000-member NSW Medical Defence Union - are trying to fight off a private company which has moved to drastically undercut their premiums for malpractice insurance. The defence uniScalpel, Nurse ... Forceps ... Writ
Wednesday January 7, 1987
Australian doctors received unwelcome New Year's tidings last week with the arrival of their medical malpractice insurance bill for 1987. With patients increasingly likely to sue them, the cost of their insurance is now five times what they paid three years ago. In 1980 it cost only $75 a yea