Malpractice prescription still unfilled

By Randy Schultz, Palm Beach Post Editor of the Editorial Page
Sunday, August 17, 2003

Fifteen years later, it's more than discouraging to see how little the debate about medical malpractice insurance in Florida has changed.

Last week, I wrote about a plan that Bernard Kimmel, a retired physician and ex-legislator from Palm Beach County, had advocated when the Legislature last took up the issue. Every doctor would pay each year into a fund that would provide enough money for jury awards and build up reserves. Doctors would pay on a sliding scale, based on risk of specialty, but all doctors would save big on premiums. Lawyers would have to seek arbitration rather than go to trial, but payouts from arbitration also would come sooner. The trick was cutting out the insurance companies and the lobbyists.

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