Series 2558: Constituent Correspondence, 2000-2003

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From: 		<N828BC@aol.com>
To: 		RM.GOV_PO.GOV_MAIL; "atuck@mail.senate.state.ms.us".Net.GOV_MAIL; "dgreen@mail.house.state.ms.us".Net.GOV_MAIL; "rjohnson@mail.senate.state.ms.us".Net.GOV_MAIL; "tford@mail.house.state.ms.us".Net.GOV_MAIL
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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