Court Report

Malpractice

A new study says health care premiums nationally rose an average 8.6 percent each year since 1999, while workers' wages rose only 3.5 percent annually. But many people don't have any health insurance at all. Last year there were 43.6 million uninsured Americans, or 15.2 percent of the population. In Berrien County the rate of uninsured is even higher, 21.3 percent, according to a 2002 survey.

• Health Insurance's Growing Share of People's Incomes
• Liability Insurance Hikes Scaring off Some Doctors
• Calif. Forces Employers to Provide Insurance to Employees
• "Bad Faith" Claims Handling Leads to Punitive Award
• Court Rejects Medicated Death Row Inmate's Case

Posted by Editor at October 6, 2003 10:32 AM