{"id":893,"date":"2005-01-21T11:52:59","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T16:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/21\/doctors_lawyers\/"},"modified":"2005-01-21T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T16:52:59","slug":"doctors_lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/21\/doctors_lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors, Lawyers Agree, Insurers Set Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.hamptonroads.com\/stories\/story.cfm?story=80880&#038;ran=30717 \">Doctors and lawyers agreed<\/a> to a <a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?ses=051&#038;typ=bil&#038;val=SB1173\">compromise bill<\/a> aimed at reducing physicians\u2019 insurance premiums.<\/p>\n<p>Certain elements seem silly, like requiring lawyers to get an outside expert to opine that malpractice occurred; try winning a case without it.  Other provisions make sense, like allowing a doctor to express sympathy for an unfortunate outcome without it being used against her as an admission of culpability.<\/p>\n<p>But nowhere in the story is the phrase \u201cinsurance company.\u201d  I wonder if they aren\u2019t using the president\u2019s campaign against \u201cfrivolous lawsuits as a cover for gouging doctors.  <\/p>\n<p>The bill passed a senate committee.  A vote by the full senate is expected next week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors and lawyers agreed to a compromise bill aimed at reducing physicians\u2019 insurance premiums. Certain elements seem silly, like requiring lawyers to get an outside expert to opine that malpractice occurred; try winning a case without it. Other provisions make sense, like allowing a doctor to express sympathy for an unfortunate outcome without it being&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/21\/doctors_lawyers\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}