University Daily Kansan
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Malpractice laws
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their risk class and initial and mature premiums a year ago.
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THAT'S WHY neurosurgical, orthopedic surgeons and cardiovascular surgeons are named after the first person to work there.
He said it was hard to tell whether rates in Kansas had increased or decreased because the system of figuring rates changed in time period. The rates previously were an estimate of future claims instead of a charge based on claims in the current year.
The state insurance department is gathering new information, but its most recent report finds that the number of
It isn't known how many malpractice suits are pending against doctors at the Med
--the fund, he said, but it is hoped that insurance rates eventually will level off.
Center. All the data haven't been compiled by the attorney general's office.
AN INSURANCE policy examiner said that one out of every 18 licensed doctors in Kansas had a claim filed against him in the case of a misapplication of the frequency of claims, he said.
A motorcade carrying local Democratic candidates and digitallists will roll into downtown Pittsburgh.
After runs through downtown Lawrence
and past the residence halls on Daisy Hill,
the caravan will drive campus on
March 8. It starts at 11:20 a.m. in front of the Kansas Union.
Democratic caravan to visit KU campus
Hal Kelz, chairman of the Douglas County Democratic Central Committee, said yesterday that Bill Roy, the 1974 democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, organia Docking, mother of former governor Robert Docking, would spouse at the rally.
Keltz said the caravan would also include local Democratic candidates Mike Glover, state representative from the 44th district; Arnold Berman, candidate for state senator from the 2nd district; Carol Francis, state representative from the 45th district; I. J. Stoneback, county commissioner from the 3rd district; Ruth Vervynn, county commissioner; Huske, candidate for Douglas County sheriff; Sue Neusftier, register of deeds for Douglas County; and Mike Malone, candidate for Douglas County attorney.
KEITH SCHMEDEMANN, administrator in the department of surgery, said he thought insurance premiums had increased from last year by 25 to 40 per cent. Doctors pay the 45 per cent fund surcharge in addition to the rate increase.
George Burket, Med Center family practice physician, said he was surprised that the insurance provider had paid $17.50 for malpractice insurance in 1954. The coverage was only for $5,000 an incident and $7,500 annually, he added. "That all was the coverage they needed them."
Keltz said that if the weather was bad, the rally would be under the canopy west of the
Although there are 5,400 licensed doctors in Kansas, it is estimated that only 2,400 actively practice. The difference in number of doctors who have returned or moved.
Doctors should be forced to have malpractice insurance just as people are required to have insurance for workers. Barket said. Doctors are paying more now, especially because they are contributing to
TWO PHYSICIANS in the top risk classes, who asked not to be identified, and a plastic surgeon, all agreed that malpractice inhibited their ability to rate the rates they paid were reasonable.
Burket said he didn't know whether the malpractice laws were successful or even constitutional, but that something had to be done about the malpractice problem.
The cost of malpractice insurance in some places reached $15,000 a year, he said. A doctor just starting a practice can’t afford the minute he opens his door, he said.
Also, a lot of insurance companies were refusing to write new policies, leaving doctors in some states with no insurance at all. The other state had problems, doctors had to go to other states.
KANSAS DOEEN'T have insurance rates as high as some states, Burket said, because it is largely a rural area where physicians have better communication with their patients and patients are less frustrated.
When people are frustrated, he said, they might sue whether the action is warranted
But he said that Kansans really weren't the type to look around for people to sue. In California, he said, there are a lot of suits over everything.
KU provides holiday fun
As visions of the Great Pumpkin dance in their heads, several Lawrence children will be entertained by KU students at Halloween parties today through Sunday.
The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and the Delta Delta Sigma sorority have planned a charity Halloween party from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Broken Arrow Park. The students will entertain children from Cordley School.
The Phi Kappa Theta fraternity and the Chi Omega security are having a Halloween party for about 20 Ballard Center children at 7 onight in Phi Kappa Theta's basement.
The St. Lawrence Catholic Center is also sponsoring a Halloween party for Ballard Center children from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the center.
The Omega Fa Pi fraternity is sponsoring a party from 5 to 7 p.m., tomorrow at the Ballard Community Center. The Omega Fa Pi planning plan children's activities at the center.
McCollum Hall students have planned a carnival to raise money for the United Way Fund from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday in their cafeteria. Each floor and wing is sponsoring booths such as fortune-telling, palm-reading and a slave auction.
Art display closes soon
Local patrons of American art have the opportunity today and tomorrow to view original art works by some well-known American artists.
A traveling art exhibit, "American Artists" View of America," is on display through tomorrow at the Lawrence Art Center, Ninth and Vermont streets.
Art works, dating from 1817 to 1974, include watercolors, lithographs, woodcuts and painting by such artists as John Hancock, John Marsh, Grant Rockwell and Wockert King.
The Lawrence Art Center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Friday.
The exhibit was organized by Dolo KU Division of Continuing Education and Spooner Art Museum, opened March 6 in Lawrence and has since toured Kansas for seven months before it returned to Lawrence yesterday.
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