Series 2558: Constituent Correspondence, 2000-2003
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Created: 6/23/2002 11:26 AM
Subject: Insurance Unavailability
Message:
As of Friday, June 21, 2002, we the physicians of Catchingc Clinic,
Woodville, were turned down for malpractice insurance by MACM. This was our
last hope to keep our clinic open for our patients who have depended on this
clinic for >80 years. Excluding the drug-type suits against three of its
practitioners, three of the four MD's, (a fourth is retiring), have had NO
malpractice suits against us in our combined 44 years of practice! Yet,
apparently because of where we practice, we are uninsurable! This is a
travesty that you, our elected officials should not have allowed to occur and
must remedy with all haste. As of July 1, 2002, Wilkinson and Amite counties
will have only one MD, and he gaces the same demise as of August 31, 2002.
Please resist the temptation to favor the trial lawyers and their
skewed view of the situation. Their contention that the insurance industry
suffers from poor investment performance may be true, but it has NOTHING to
do with the fact that insurors are PETRIFIED by the thought of the risks they
will incur (an unlimited/unquantifiable risk I might add) by entering the
Mississippi malpractice market. My clinic is one of many that will "go the
way of the buffalo" without your prompt attention.
---Eliminate venue shopping.
---Eliminate joint and severable liability. Where is the fairness in
holding me
accountable for someone else's fault?
---Cap awards at or below $500,000.
Robert L. Lewis, MD
Woodville
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