Neurosurgeons refuse to perform high-risk surgery. Doctors leave Illinois to find cheaper insurance. And the state medical society chief warns that only a cap on jury awards can solve the malpractice crisis. Sound like last week's news? Actually, it was the 1980s. Then, as now, ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., the state's dominant medical malpractice insurer, sharply raised premiums charged to physicians and lobbied state lawmakers for limits on malpractice verdicts.
Posted by Editor at June 14, 2004 03:37 AM