SOUTHERN ILLINOIS -- Doctors perennially complain about lawsuits and their connection to the ever-rising cost of medical malpractice insurance. But the president of the Illinois State Bar Association, who recently toured Southern Illinois, said doctors should complain about insurance companies instead of medical malpractice lawyers such as him. Terry Lavin, of Lavin and Nisivaco in Chicago, said increases in malpractice rates can be attributed to losses by insurance companies in the stock market, not to large awards in medical malpractice cases.
Posted by Editor at October 14, 2003 10:46 AM