Malpractice insurer to pay $11 million to health-care providers

From SJ-R.com
The state’s largest medical malpractice insurer announced this week it plans to return more than $11 million to the physicians it insures. The medical industry differed with trial lawyers on the reasons.
“Illinois’ improving legal landscape made these dividends possible,” said Dr. Harold Jensen, chair of the Illinois State Medical Insurance Exchange board, in a [...]

Hospitals, regulators in battle over rules

From the Des Moines Register
In Iowa today, a state license to run a hospital costs $10. The cost of a state license to open a bait shop is three times that amount.
The state’s $10 hospital license fee has been the same since 1947, when President Harry Truman was in the White House.
The fee is not [...]