Yesterday, AAJ released a new report on complete immunity preemption titled, Get Out of Jail Free: A Historical Perspective of How the Bush Administration Helps Corporations Escape Accountability. This report reveals how in a stealth effort coordinated at the highest levels of the Bush administration, federal agencies were repeatedly ordered…
Last week I wrote a post called “SVMIC Rate Increase – NOT.” The post explained that SVMIC had not raised its insurance rates for its owner-doctors in 2008. Read the entire post here. I then received this comment from Tom: What’s wrong with making a profit? I am sure as a…
Did you hear about the State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company rate increase? No, you didn’t – because it didn’t happen. Typically the media gets a press release from SVMIC saying that insurance is increasing X% and we hear from the TMA that the world is coming to come to an…
The Mississippi Supreme Court accepted review of a case where the plaintiff failed to attach either an attorney’s certificate of consultation, or an expert disclosure in lieu of the certificate, as required by Mississippi Code Annotated Section 11-1-58 (Rev. 2007). The question is whether that fact required a dismissal of the…
State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company , the doctor-owned medical malpractice insurance carrier, continues to enjoy profitability, according to my review of its 2007 Annual Report that was recently filed with the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance. A few highlights: * Surplus, the insurance industry equivalent of net worth, increased…
Tortsprof Blog has been kind enough to let us know that Directorship has released its second annual Boardroom Guide to State Litigation Climates. According to the Guide: Directorship’s Best and Worst States for Business The 10 Best 1. Tennessee 2. Utah 3. Indiana 4. Ohio 5. North Dakota 6. North…
A story that is of no surprise to anyone who knows anything about human beings … except a decreasing number of doctors and hospitals.
The Chamber of Commerce does an annual ranking of the "lawsuit climate" in the fifty states. The winning state – Deleware – has the most pro-business climate. The losing state – West Virginia – has the most anti-business climate. How are the rankings determined? By a "sample of in-house general counsel…
Tennessee ranks 12th of the 50 states on the U.S. Tort Liability Index. The list measures the tort climate from the standpoint of the business and insurance community, so a rank of "1" is a pro-business, pro-insurance company state and a rank of "50" is that dark, dreary place inhabited…
Governor Bredesen gave his State of the State address last night . He did not say that he had any desire to limit the right to trial by jury for any citizen against any defendant in any industry. This comment scares the nursing homes: "My job is to open more…