Boosting Your Workplace Morale The holidays are over and winter has made its presence known with a vengeance across much of the United States—what with polar vortexes, the snowpocalypse and coldmageddon striking from North Dakota to Alabama.  Meanwhile schedules are getting back to normal and most of us are settling in for what can often

Looking Back on a Great 2013 and Ahead to an Exciting 2014 It’s hard to believe it, but with Christmas right around the corner, the end of another year is upon us.  And it’s been a great year for our team at eQuoteMD.  We achieved numerous milestones in terms of meeting the malpractice insurance needs of physicians

So, what is going to happen with Obamacare?  When will it finally come into full effect?  Will it come into full effect?  What will it mean for doctors?  For medical malpractice premiums and coverage? There are the predictions – pro and con – that analysts have been debating since 2009. The optimists remind us that

I recently read a couple of articles that really gave me pause. One was an appeal from a young doctor to those in Washington responsible for the creation of public policy. His burden was to help the lobbyists, special interests, and especially politicians understand the long and arduous path to becoming a physician in contemporary America, and what that

Before getting into medical malpractice insurance, I was a high school English teacher. In my 10th grade British Lit class, I had the privilege of teaching some of Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays every year. I say it was a privilege because I love Shakespeare and enjoyed teaching a variety of his works: Julius Caesar, Macbeth,

In our last post we did a quick overview of the numbers from this year’s annual malpractice insurance rate survey put out by Medical Liability Monitor.  There, we saw that the trend of static to declining rates continued for 2013 as it has for the past several years.  Today, we’re going to step back from the

Good News for Doctors (and Insurers) According to a recent poll from Medical Liability Monitor—a malpractice insurance trade newsletter—the medical professional liability insurance industry has experienced yet another year of declining rates across the U.S., the eighth such year in a row.  Medical Liability Monitor publishes the results of a comprehensive poll that includes 75% or more of

Over at the Monthly Prescribing Reference (MPR) website, the story is told of a doctor who was sued by a patient in a situation where there was, in fact, a less than ideal outcome, but not due to fault or malpractice on the part of the doctor or any health professional.  The MPR article uses this story to make the point