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The caveat is his fear of liti gation. “Being sued is part of prac ticing medicine in South Texas. I have heard that same state ment from lawyer friends of mine,” Nordyke said. “One said, ‘Don’t take it personal, it’s just part of business.’ I’m sorry, but 1 do take it personal. Plus, I have to worry about losing everything I’ve worked for.” Nordyke is one of approxi mately 600 private practice and hospital doctors planning to close their offices Monday for a “day of awareness” about malpractice insurance fees and a litigious climate they say is driving rates up and driving doctors away. Up the coast in Nueces County, where 63 percent of doctors have had claims filed against them in the last 13 years, doctors are planning simultaneous activities to show support. Emergency services at hos pitals will not be stopped. “It’s not something they want to do, but circumstances compel them to do,” said Jon Opelt of Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, which is organ izing the event. “They see this as a plea for survival for doctors and patients.” The most outspoken critic of the walkout is the lobbying group Texans for Public Justice. “Instead of marching on a courthouse, turning their backs on patients, they ought to be marching on the gover nor’s office and joining with constituents to try to do some thing about skyrocketing insurance rates,” director Craig McDonald said. In Texas and across the nation, the insurance industry has been rocked by the stock market slide. Sept. 11 aftennath and lawsuit expenses. In parts of Florida, some doctors may pay more than $200,000 for coverage. West Virginia’s governor called law makers into special session to devise affordable insurance options to keep doctors leaving the state. Since 1999, seven of! practice insurance carriers ing Texas have either, gone belly up, accord® Texas Department of "Over the last coir years we have been pa\ more in claims than sse taken in in premiums," Julie Pulliam of the N; Insurance Association. 1 costs have gone throng roof. The primary' reason cost of lawsuits.” Kim Ross, a lobbyist the Texas Medical Assoc attributed the surgingpre to several factors. “Lawyers need to their responsibility for Ihe Ur notab Ever : bbellion ag Jionarchy, t played the r ero in the i Lmericans. Jas served t ideals over < Trvading A If slavery ai failure to police then.* ““aMh”', the insurance companiesi 1 to provide responsible pr: and underwriting accoum ty,” Ross said. 1 .awyers say doctors inis ^horrent I \ enly believe that ton re limiting jury' awards will their insurance premiums, note that the New York- Center for Justice Democracy found that in fom forced ance companies benefit. ase is pend orations th; )ibor. 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School districts are required report to the TEA any discipline action that results in a studer being removed from the clas room and sent to a toplinar alternative education^ ^ ^Mutioi Billy Jacobs, senior W. the safe schools division^ said reporting mistakes arc®- times to blame for data Probably not. blame and an tical. But sue anyone to tak a racist past. Some criti eminent shou these abuses, mesdid comi Regard le: III I ICO IU uioimv, - rvnai IN Ull ties, but he is concernedthatsc- (|) eactua | v j cl i tn DtiS o.i i schools may be too quick to^ problem students aside by P JC them in alternative programs “Some districts will ren* student for three tardies,” beta Sunday’s editions of The »• Morning News. "We see a where more students are gomi minor things.” Minorities apply fo more democratic appointment posts AUSTIN (AP) - Blacks 3' Hispanics are more like V for an appointed post u Democrat governor than Republican governor, accordJ a review of gubernatoria ment records by the American-Statesman. .Emay taste. Ho Democrat Ann Richar s will feel some the chart with minorities and decide senting 38.6 percent of aPP'e* • for appointments from ^ 1994, based on a review than 11 years of records n bic * Since 1995, when Rep^ George W. of the pla survivors of a Critics say th; imply that am could file a la sible argumen to be made fo vantages as a ancestors. Mo abuse still their labor the today as succl is that active f meration to si tion. Compani because the al racism could i dons feasible. It is undeni the 35 million battle. It is eqi rests on a foui ID, WIICII "“r p ■ — Bush and R |C y^ true, one canm should be mad have made the appointment# sions, the percentage 0 sions, the perc^B , applicants dropped to The appointees com J* applicant pool that me ^ types of job aspiran s J who are asking f° r P ^ those who have been seek appointments. The appointees include^ regulators, j udge ^’ ^issf board members and c ers for state agencies. Jury deliberates case of police oP SAN ANTONIO (AP) '*2 Texas jury will cont ' n , ra |trial tions Monday ' n (f r ac cus®) a former police office a drug trafficking scheme ^ Arthur Gutierrez Jr.,' H6 five federal drug ^LoOO accused of accept ' n f hettiouf escort or protect was cocaine in September 2000, jury of nine r men deliberated Jo f uve hours in Gutier Saturday before dec.dmg^ for the weekend and erations Monday. 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