Doctors Suing Insurers Over Denied Claims. (CLASS ACTION SUITS ON THE RISE).
WASHINGTON -- Physicians are getting bolder about challenging insurers over delayed or denied health care claims. Dr. John McMahan, an Illinois ear, nose, and throat physician, sued Employers Health Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Humana Inc., after the managed care organization began downcoding claims on outpatient office...

The curious complications with back-end opt-out rights.
ABSTRACT In recent years, class members have been afforded delayed, or "back-end," opportunities to opt out of a class action once the terms of the settlement are disclosed. These back-end opt-out rights may afford only limited rights to sue outside the confines of the class action. For...

Rampant Litigation and Fraud Force Florida Consumers to Pay More for Auto Insurance.
Case Law Changes Are Primary Culprit in Higher Auto Insurance Premiums TAMPA, Fla., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The House Insurance Committee, chaired by Representative Leslie Waters, R-Largo, recently passed two bills aimed at addressing the dramatic increase in Personal Injury Protection (PIP) insurance costs in...

Y2K.
CLAIMS FOR Y2K: Prepare for classification suits. This is the advice given to insurers by those at the Millennium Claims Symposium, a meeting early this year in Toronto. The meeting was sponsored by SCOR Group, France's largest reinsurer, and Lang Michener, a law firm in Toronto. Industry watchers say...

Physicians Sue Insurers Over Claim Downcoding.
WASHINGTON -- Physicians are getting bolder about challenging insurers over delayed or denied health care claims. Dr. John McMahan, an Illinois otolaryngologist, sued Employers Health Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Humana Inc., after the managed care organization began downcoding claims on outpatient office visits. Although...

Theobald v. University of Cincinnati - reforming medical malpractice in Ohio: a survey of state laws and policy impacts.
I. INTRODUCTION II. THEOBALD V. UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI A. Theobald's Facts B. Theobald's Posture C. Theobald's Opinion and Holding III. HISTORY OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONER-STATE EMPLOYEE IMMUNITY CASE LAW IV. COMPARING THEOBALD TO OTHER JURISDICTIONS A. Comparing Ohio and Other "General Statute" States. B. Comparing Ohio and Common Law States...

The Coming Y2K Claims Explosion.
Claims related to the year 2000 computer problem are expected to create the second most costly event ever experienced by insurers-second only to asbestos and pollution cleanup claims. Insurance companies and defense lawyers have been shouting from the rooftops all the reasons that insurance policies will not...

The case against litigation journalism.
When A Florida widower claimed on CNN'S "Larry King Live" (Jan. 21, 1993) that his wife had died from a brain tumor caused by her cellular telephone, he was advancing a deliberate, wellplanned legal strategy called "litigation journalism." So were the lawyers and plaintiffs involved in "Waiting to Explode?,"...

Harmonizing regulatory and litigation approaches to climate change mitigation: incorporating tradable emissions offsets into common law remedies.
INTRODUCTION Within the past several years, state attorneys general filed two high-profile common law tort lawsuits against major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2003, the attorneys general of New York, California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin and the City Attorney for...

Military quacks.
It's time to repair the military medical system Leigh Clark, 16, was to undergo a 45-minute laparoscopic procedure to provide physicians with pictures of the inside of her abdomen, where she had complained of sharp pains. But something went wrong and a surgeon's mistake caused her right femoral...