Doctors Want to Carry Less Coverage ; Malpractice Remedy Could Hurt Patients
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › February 20, 2004
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New Jersey's doctors want to lower their insurance costs by buying less malpractice coverage, a move critics say could leave injured patients in dire financial straits.
With their campaign for malpractice insurance reform stalled in Trenton and premiums rising steadily, physicians packed a hearing room Thursday to ask the state to allow doctors to lower insurance policies to $300,000 per claim, down from the $1 million currently required.See the full content of this document
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Doctors Want to Carry Less Coverage ; Malpractice Remedy Could Hurt Patients
That means that malpractice victims could collect no more than $300,000 from a doctor's insurer, even if unable to work or in need of costly medical care for the rest of their lives.
The medical society argues that by reducing the amount...See the full content of this document
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