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Soaring Liability Premiums Plague Massachusetts
Physicians
By David Graves
When Swadesh Mullick, M.D., learned that her
medical liability insurance premium was going up, she was convinced
that her insurer, ProMutual, must have gotten the numbers wrong.
The premium for her obstetrics practice was more than 25 percent
higher than the year before.
First, I called and asked, Are
you sure this is correct? said Dr. Mullick, who has
been delivering babies at Lawrence General and Holy Family Hospitals
in the Merrimack Valley for nearly 20 years. There was simply
no way that I would be able to stay in practice facing that large
a premium.
While she now has interim coverage, Dr. Mullick
will close her practice this year, several years before she had
planned. The double-digit premium increase that forced Dr. Mullick
to make her decision hit hundreds of physicians across Massachusetts
on July 1. more
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