Law puts Blue Cross on offensive
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' lucrative business of selling health insurance to municipalities and unions is under attack since a law was enacted in June allowing cities and towns to join the health insurance plan for state employees.
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The state's largest auto insurer yesterday sued Insurance Commissioner Julianne M. Bowler, alleging she overstepped her legal authority in approving new rules for apportioning high-risk drivers among companies in Massachusetts.
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As doctors voiced anger at an Annapolis rally yesterday over escalating insurance costs, legislative leaders said they remain far from a consensus on how to address the problem before Maryland physicians&#39; bills come due next month.
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The Florida Hospital Association has taken the lead in challenging two constitutional amendments that deal with medical errors and malpractice.
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Despite critics who say patientsâ bills of rights laws are actually designed to protect health care providers, new research published in the current issue of the American Journal of Medicine found just the opposite.
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The political battle in Maryland to limit medical malpractice lawsuits is also underway in Virginia and the District, where doctors and hospitals are pressing for greater restrictions on who can sue for a medical mistake and how much can be collected.
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New York&#39;s attorney general sued the nation&#39;s leading insurance brokerage yesterday, accusing brokers of taking payoffs to steer clients to insurance companies that were not necessarily offering the lowest prices for their policies.
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When it comes to affairs of the heart, the law is a rather blunt instrument. Despite suggestions that the parents of baby Charlotte Wyatt - fighting a legal battle to insist that doctors resuscitate their
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One of America&#39;s premier cardiac hospitals is locked in a furious battle with McDonald&#39;s after its director sought to evict the fast-food outlet from the clinic&#39;s sprawling site.
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A private health care firm criticised for the way it runs its out-of-hours GP service in Wales has announced it is taking on more doctors.
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The government's GP leader is to go on a charm offensive after weeks of damaging stories about the profession.
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Medical-care ratio concerns trip up shareholders.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit this week against two distributors of the flu vaccine for allegedly charging exorbitant prices to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman, in violation of state law.
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VANCOUVER - Just days after the arthritis drug Vioxx was pulled from store shelves, a class action lawsuit has been launched in BC Supreme Court alleging negligence by drug maker Merck and Co.
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ST. LOUIS -- The federal government yesterday sued Walgreen Co. , alleging widespread racial bias against thousands of black workers throughout the nation's largest drugstore chain.
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A proposal by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s administration to shore up Maryland's medical malpractice insurers is so flawed that it could have a "potentially devastating impact" on the state's largest carrier, according to one of the company's attorneys.
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A study concludes the region's largest health insurer is shirking its legal obligation to support public health needs.