However, often the police will not amend the report. Otherwise, the police would be flooded with people who seek to exonerate themselves in an amended report.

It is best that you review your report with an attorney IMMEDIATELY. You can feel free to call me.

Thank you for your reply.

A definite great read..Jim Bean

Unless the incident is very minor, it is important to have the incident report and make sure that the incident report is made. This will establish that the accident happened.

In comparison, where there is no accident report, the insurance company and cruise line will take the position that your accident was a “blind accident,” i.e., unsubtantiated. The insurance company will use the excuse of “blind accident” as a bargaining chip in negotiations.

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The cost of medical malpractice will be the subject of my next article.

Getting back to the subject of “fear of lawsuits” and unnecessary testing, the reality is that our medical industry is built on cross-referrals to specialists and sophisticated testing. If you have a nagging pain in your low back, the family doctor might send you to an orthopedist or neurologist. In turn, the specialist might send you for an MRI and EMG.

Furthermore, the general public wants to see specialists and have testing when there is a problem which is either unsolved or requires surgery.

In sum, the the “unnecessary testing” argument is another myth.

This is the problem that should be corrected, this exaggeration.

Following is a GAO report on medical malpractice and could not find any evidence to substantiate the claims of lawsuits impacting health care costs, access to health care or defensive medicine (with one possible lose connection relating to OBGYN). But of course you will not see this report on any media outlet swinging left or right.

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03836.pdf

Remember the CBO report regarding the cost of a single payer system that we all grasped to support our arguments against a single payer system…

Well, there is the CBO report which had this to say about tort reform:

“But even large savings in premiums can have only a small direct impact on health care spending–private or governmental–because malpractice costs account for less than 2 percent of that spending.”

http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=4968&type=0#t3

And of course there is Tillinghast-Towers Perrin (one of the largest in the world that provides risk management for the insurance and reinsurance industry).

According to the actuarial consulting firm Towers Perrin, medical malpractice tort costs were $30.4 billion in 2007, the last year for which data are available. We have a more than a $2 trillion health care system. That puts litigation costs and malpractice insurance at 1 to 1.5 percent of total medical costs. That’s a rounding error. Liability isn’t even the tail on the cost dog. It’s the hair on the end of the tail.

Of that 1 to 1.5 percent what portion of that is “frivolous”?

http://www.towersperrin.com/tp/getwebcachedoc?webc=USA/2008/200811/2008_tort_costs_trends.pdf (Page 10)

And then of course the report from Towers Perrin that states that the total tort cost in the US is 2% of the GDP. What percentage of that is “frivolous” and of that percentage what percentage is “frivolous” corporate lawsuits. So how much are “frivolous” lawsuits driving up the cost of everything? Maybe less than 2 cents on the dollar or maybe even less the 1 cent on the dollar?
http://www.towersperrin.com/tp/getwebcachedoc?webc=USA/2008/200811/2008_tort_costs_trends.pdf

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The FDNY recommends that when we set the clocks forward and back (i.e., twice a year) a test check of one’s alarms should be made. Often batteries must be changed.

An alarm without a charged battery is the equivalent of no alarm.

I recommend that when shopping for an alarm get one that may be a little more expensive than the rest as long as it has good features and will last longer.

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