Re: Calif. Bar Board Members Butt Heads on Malpractice Insurance Disclosure

From: Gordon Goldman (obgyndoc@swbell.net)
Wed Nov 14 19:25:55 2007


In Missouri, if you live in a county with greater than 75,000 population, and want to have hospital privileges, you are mandate by state statute to have a minimum $500,000/$1,000,000 professional liability coverage to keep your license. So, if a dermatologist who does not see hospital patients wishes, they need not have coverage, but if they want hospital privileges, they must have coverage. Does not make sense to me either, but that's the law.

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Gordon M. Goldman, M.D., FACOG
Private Practice, St. Louis, Mo.

On Nov 14, 2007, at 6:16 PM, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote:

> > In a message dated 11/14/07 5:53:25 PM, rchudacoff@mylinuxisp.com > writes: > >> It would be nice if we could get the same consideration as the >> lawyers, but then again, we don’t get to make the laws, do we? > > Ahhh, but we DO have the same consideration. We're not legally > required to have malpractice insurance, are we? In other words, > there's no LAW that says we need malpractice. There's only > (private) rules by, e.g., hospitals and 3rd party insurers. If a > company or other entity required their in-house lawyers or contract > lawyers to carry malpractice, it would be the same thing. > > Joe P. >





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