In Ohio, doctors treating the elderly are being given an “ultimatum: Stop seeing nursing home patients or get no insurance at all. … Frank O’Neil, vice president of corporate communications for malpractice insurer ProAssurance, said the company has made it a policy to stop insuring doctors whose main business is nursing home care. The lawsuit climate in nursing homes, O’Neil said, is worse than any other area of malpractice law, ‘bar none.’” (Tracy Wheeler, “Insurers push doctors to drop older patients”, Akron Beacon Journal, Feb. 15) (via MedPundit, who also covers the Ohio malpractice crisis in posts dated Feb. 14 and Feb. 17). See also Tracy Wheeler, “State seeks solutions to rising insurance costs”, Akron Beacon Journal, Feb. 15. For more on nursing home litigation, see Dec. 17 and links from there.
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