Insurance expert witness Jim Leatzow has been educating and insuring professionals about the risks to their businesses for twenty years. At Leatzow.com, he offers a glossary of jargon associated with risk management. Two of the terms defined are: Cashechtomy Pronounced “Cash-ech-tomee” Sounding like a medical term, this is the procedure…
From the blog of medical expert witness Dr. Barry E. Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEP: Locality Rules and Qualifying Medical Experts By the 1970’s, jurisdictions began modifying the locality rule. One problem the courts faced had to do with whether a medical specialist practicing in a rural area was in any…
Insurance expert witness Jim Leatzow has been educating and insuring professionals about the risks to their businesses for twenty years. At Leatzow.com, he offers a glossary of jargon associated with risk management. Two of the terms defined are: Claims-Made Insurance A policy written to cover claims “made” or brought during…
From the blog of medical expert witness Dr. Barry E. Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEP: Locality Rules and Qualifying Medical Experts As medicine evolved, however, standards of practice slowly became homogenized across all communities, rural and urban. This happened because medical specialty and subspecialty organizations developed, and physicians were held to…
Insurance expert witness Jim Leatzow has been educating and insuring professionals about the risks to their businesses for twenty years. At Leatzow.com, he offers a glossary of jargon associated with risk management. Two of the terms he defines are: Run-Off Period Time following the expiration of an E&O policy which…
From the blog of medical expert witness Dr. Barry E. Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEP: Locality Rules and Qualifying Medical Experts Where do these rules come from and why are they important? Many years ago, there truly was a disparity between the levels of medical care rendered in rural areas versus…
Insurance expert witness Jim Leatzow has been educating and insuring professionals about the risks to their businesses for twenty years. At his website he offers “Common Questions and Their Answers” to professionals in the green design industry, e.g. landscape architects, arborists, and irrigation designers: Here’s answers to a few of…
In Truck/Tractor-trailer brakes and accident reconstruction, equipment and machinery expert witness Robert R. Reed writes on ABS anti-lock brakes: Large trucks and tractor-trailers with ABS anti-lock brakes involved in crashes and accidents have complex systems that must be identified and accounted for in reconstruction and causation issues. Misconception as to…
In Barry Zalma on Bad Faith: Time to Put A Stake Through the Heart of the Tort of Bad Faith, insurance expert witness Zalma writes: After the creation of the tort of bad faith, if an insurer and insured disagreed on the application of the policy to the factual situation,…
In Preventable Medical Errors, medical expert witness Perry Hookman, M.D., writes that cancer outpatient medication errors may be more common than previously thought. The increasing number of medications — prescription and nonprescription — used by older people has raised the potential for harm from serious drug interactions, doctors warn in…