Driving home today, I found myself behind a dump truck staring at the sign on the back, “warning: stay 200 feet behind, not responsible for damage”.  If you were close enough to read the sign, you were certainly closer than 200 feet.
Can they and do they really get away with this? If some baseball size [...]

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Good luck getting this changed:
MySA.com: David Hendricks

As a new kind of family-friendly and affordable medical clinic pops up in bunches across the nation, Texas waits like a flu patient sitting in a crowded doctor’s office.
The barrier is state law, which urgently needs updating to keep up with new trends in health-care delivery.

The “barrier” is actually [...]

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Health Insurance Premiums Rise 6.1%, Top $12K A Year For Families | WOAI.COM: San Antonio News

Health insurance premiums paid by workers and their employers rose an average of 6.1 percent this year, outpacing inflation and pay increases and taking a bigger chunk out of families’ budgets, according to a new survey.
Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance [...]

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Texas’ largest physician carrier lowers 2008 medical insurance rates – San Antonio Business Journal:

The Texas Medical Liability Trust’s governing board voted to reduce rates for Texas policyholders and pay out a dividend once policies are renewed in 2008.

Texas’ largest physician carrier lowers 2008 medical insurance rates – San Antonio Business Journal:

TMLT has reduced rates five [...]

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Very interesting articles on malpractice reform from the Dallas Morning News.
Are Texas’ malpractice damage limits healthy? | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Business

Doctors have seen their costs fall for liability insurance as malpractice insurance companies return to the state and to profitability. There is no evidence of savings to Texas consumers, [...]

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MySA.com: David Hendricks

When Texas voters in 2003 approved a state proposition capping lawsuit awards for medical malpractice cases, only four insurance companies even offered malpractice policies to Texas doctors.
Now, 30 insurance companies crowd the market, and premiums have fallen like so many San Antonio Spurs playoff opponents. The lower cost of being a doctor in [...]

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So do you think if this happened to a physician’s relative that he or she would think the $250,000 is adequate non-economic damage awards?
Man Claims Healthy Kidney Removed; Cancerous Kidney Left | WOAI.COM: San Antonio News
Back in August 2006, Donald Brown, 80, went to Methodist Transplant and Specialty Hospital. He was to have his left [...]

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