Michigan malpractice law could set national model in 1976
A Michigan reform using binding contractual arbitration aims to curb malpractice insurance costs and reduce patient bills. The plan shifts disputes from juries to arbitrators, may trim award sizes, improve doctor screening, and speed up case handling, with potential 20 to 30 percent savings passed to patients.
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John F. Dodge
Detroit
Physicians
Christiaan Barnard
South Africa
U.S
Physician’s Crisis Committee
Buhl
Mich
House rejects six billion synthetic fuel loan plan
The House voted 263 to 140 to strike a 6 billion loan guarantee for synthetic fuel plants from a bill backing ERDA programs. It also rejected by 283 to 117 a proposal to lease federal land for a joint government industry shale oil plant. The bill returns to the Senate with deletions.
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Washington
House
Energy Research and Development Administration
Senate
Cattle and calves auction data from St Paul market report
South St Paul Minnesota USDA report shows cattle and calves at 4 500 head with varied classes. Steers and heifers active, prices range from 39.00 to 46.50 per hundredweight. Holsteins and slaughter cows, heifers, bulls and hogs priced, with sheep and lambs noted for steady to higher trends and specific weight bands.
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South ST. Paul, Minn
USDA
Choice
Mercer Couple Dead From Furnace Asphyxiation
Iron County authorities said Russell Spears and his wife Viola died of asphyxiation after a furnace pipe to the basement chimney became clogged. Deputies entering the Mercer home found the couple dead, with the sheriff estimating they had been dead several days and an autopsy planned.
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Mercer
Wis
Iron County
Russell Spears
Viola
John Gentile
Richard Ekmark
Gentile
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