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BROWNSVILLE, Texas
(AP) — Life in the Rio Grande
Valley is pleasant enough for
Dr. Bradley Nordyke. The fast
growing population needs him
and he enjoys perks such as
light traffic, proximity to
Mexico and a quick drive to
Gulf Coast beaches.
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
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to provide responsible pr:
and underwriting accoum
ty,” Ross said.
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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
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NEWS IN BRIEF
State education
agency monitors
discipline program
DALLAS (AP) - School distr
nitting nunn
sason why I
issets they a
lets.” No sp
Economis
SI1.4 trillion t
emancipatior
of California
trillion from
ply during th
Can these
statewide will come underscrut otfer trillions
when the Texas Education Ager-:
starts a new system to redit
irregularities in how schools repo 1
discipline action.
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
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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.
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vantages as a
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have made the appointment#
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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
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Saturday before dec.dmg^
for the weekend and
erations Monday.
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