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January 16, 2012 | By: Timothy R. Bone, President, MedMal Direct Insurance Company
The word “risk” derives from the early Italian risicare, which means “to dare.” In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. This is clearly demonstrated in the dozens of cases I have managed over the last 38 years concerning...
December 12, 2011 | By: Timothy R. Bone, President, MedMal Direct Insurance Company
The subject of conflicting orders in a medical chart is a modern one. Up to the 1950’s, the medical chart in the primary care setting was used as a reminder system for one physician to provide continuing care to a patient or to a patient’s...
November 24, 2011 | By: Timothy R. Bone, President, MedMal Direct Insurance Company
Over several months of treatment of a patient, a primary care physician wrote all notes in a patient’s medical record in Spanish. A year later, the office manager received a record request from an attorney and learned that all records were...
October 22, 2011
Jacksonville-based MedMal Direct Insurance Company’s Financial Stability Rating® (FSR) of A,Exceptional, has been reaffirmed by Demotech, Inc. This level of FSR is assigned to insurers who possess exceptional financial stability related to...
October 02, 2011 | By: Timothy R. Bone, President, MedMal Direct Insurance Company
Six years ago medical malpractice insurance premiums hit their peak, forcing many physicians and surgeons to “go bare”; i.e., practice medicine without having any medical malpractice insurance at all. In my 37 year career I have handled...