Latest Protests Riots Headlines
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MD. DOCTORS PROTEST MED MAL RATES:
Feb 9 2004 // Leaders from MedChi, Maryland’s state medical society, Gov. Ehrlich and other elected officials, joined AMA President Donald J. Palmisano, as he spoke to thousands of Maryland physicians in front of the state capitol...
Piccola Addresses Pa. Physicians as They Start Statewide Protests
Apr 29 2003 // Senate Majority Whip Jeffrey Piccola (R-15) emphasized Monday the need for enacting caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases to members of the Politically Active Physicians Association (PAPA) at rallies in...
Pa. Hospital Assoc. Issues Statement on Physician Protests
Apr 28 2003 // The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) has issued a statement by president and CEO Carolyn Scanlan in anticipation of this week’s “Code Blue” physician protests, expressing...
P.A.P.A to Lead Malpractice Protest Starting April 28th
Apr 22 2003 // Pennsylvania’s Politically Active Physicians Association (P.A.P.A.) announced that a statewide protest aimed at reforming medical liability insurance laws will begin on April 28. The bulletin said the organization...
PIANY Protests Ads in DMV Mailers
Mar 19 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York has asked the DMV to cease a pilot program that sends drivers ads with their registration renewals in the mail. “If you register your car in New York,” said the...
Illinois Docs Protest Premiums in Capitol Rotunda
Feb 27 2003 // Approximately 300 Illinois doctors, most from the Chicago area, staged a “white-coat rally” in the rotunda of the state’s capitol in Springfield. Illinois already has limits on non-economic and punitive...
Illinois Docs to Protest Med Mal Premiums
Feb 25 2003 // Illinois physicians are planning a one-day strike on Wednesday in Springfield to protest skyrocketing malpractice premiums and the litigation costs they say are the cause for them, according to the Chicago...
NJ Doctors Start Slowdown Today to Protest High Med Mal Costs
Feb 3 2003 // Many doctors across New Jersey are expected to join a “slowdown” in providing non-essential medical services, scheduled to begin today, to protest rising medical malpractice premiums, and to dramatize their...
Doctors in Fla. and Mississippi Protest Med-Mal Costs
Jan 28 2003 // Over 800 Florida doctors and a dozen in Mississippi protested rising costs of malpractice insurance by staying off the job. According to Associated Press reports, doctors in the Palm Beach County area protested by...
W.Va. Doctors Stage Med-Mal Protest
Jan 2 2003 // Surgeons at four West Virginia hospitals began a protest against the high cost of medical malpractice insurance by refusing to perform surgeries. According to the Associated Press, the doctors took leaves of absence from...
NAMIC Protests AICPA Draft Statement
Nov 29 2002 // A recent draft statement by the accounting profession on risk-transfer features of certain forms of quota-share reinsurance was the target of a protest by the Accounting Committee of the National Association of Mutual...
Fla. Doctors Protest Med Mal Costs
Sep 20 2002 // Doctors rallied at Broward County Courthouse in Florida, protesting the high cost of medical malpractice insurance and rising claims that they say are forcing physicians to limit their practices. According to the Florida...
Contractors Protest at Florida Workers’ Comp Commission Meeting
Aug 26 2002 // Florida contractors mounted a protest at a meeting with the Governor’s Commission on Workers’ Compensation, insisting that a new law requiring all workers to be covered by workers’ comp on commercial...
Colorado Workers Protest Rates
Oct 8 2001 // Waving signs such as “My family can’t afford $800 health insurance” and “Will work “4′ health insurance: state employee, five children,” Colorado state workers expressed outrage...
BANKING ACT BRINGS INSURER PROTEST
Feb 12 2001 // The Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) expressed opposition to the draft National Bank Act, which was recently proposed by the American...
NAII Protests Calif. Earthquake Bill
May 17 2000 // A new earthquake bill would invite an avalanche of claims, the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) said yesterday. Senate Bill 1899 lifts the statute of limitations that would otherwise bar plaintiffs from...
