December 2003

12/18/2003 Med Mal Costs Still Rising Faster Than Overall Tort Costs
12/18/2003 Overcrowded Emergency Departments Increase Time Ambulances Are Out of Service
12/18/2003 House Panel Gives ODI Power to Form Medical Liability Company With $12 Million From 1975 Venture
12/18/2003 Scully's interim replacement steps up
12/18/2003 Insurance Company Tells Supreme Court Anti-Claims Stacking Provision Applies to Medical Liability as Well as Automobile Coverage
12/18/2003 Trial Data From Stark County Compiled for SB 80
12/15/2003

AMC/NOMA Backs Insurance Director Proposal For Authority to Create Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association If Needed
12/15/2003 Both Sides Face Perils In Specialty Facility War
12/15/2003 USP’s MEDMARXSM Hospital Medication Error Report Supports JCAHO Key Patient Safety Goals
12/15/2003 Information on Flu Vaccine
12/15/2003 CECOMS Hospital Override System
12/15/2003 Physicians Can Seek Damages From HMOS Under RICO, Judge Rules
12/15/2003 HIPAA Privacy Suit to Go Before Federal Court
12/15/2003 HHS Secretary, Thompson, to Resign After 2004 Elections
12/15/2003 CMS Administrator Tom Scully To Step Down
12/15/2003 Stanfield Named CEO of New OHA Med Mal Company
12/01/2003 March 26, 2004 - the AMC/NOMA is HOSTING A SEMINAR entitled "Saving Northern Ohio Medicine and Protecting Patients."
12/01/2003 Register for the Free Statewide Introduction to AHRQ Web M&M
12/01/2003 AMC/NOMA Applauds Federal Contact Lens Legislation
12/01/2003 AMC/NOMA Joins Ohio KePRO in Sponsoring Nation's First Web-based Patient Safety Site
12/01/2003 Bush renews call for federal malpractice reform
12/01/2003 Pa. malpractice reform crumbles, forcing docs to pay up
12/01/2003 Congress passes Medicare bill
12/01/2003 How Ohio Representatives voted on the Medicare bill