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Unnecessary Roughness

by Bill Coffin on October 21, 2009 · 3 comments

Anybody who watched the Tampa Bay Buccaneers play the Carolina Panthers last Sunday got to see one of the more egregious fouls in recent NFL history. With only 0:10 left to go in the first half, Carolina punted to Tampa Bay for what was supposed to be an otherwise normal return. What happened, however, was [...]

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This weekend, a fierce gun battle between two drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro’s “Monkey Hill” slum left some ten suspected gang members dead and entire neighborhoods fearing for their lives as the sound of automatic fire could be heard all day long. At one point, a police helicopter, loitering over the area to direct [...]

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Hooray for Hollywood

by Bill Coffin on October 7, 2009 · 0 comments

One of the things I most enjoy doing is writing my “First Word” column, which appears at the beginning of each issue of Risk Management. It passes for what would be the editor’s page in most other publications, but a while back, I decided that if I was going to take up a page in [...]

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1. When addressing med mal reform, Obama has said he will not consider capping malpractice awards as a measure of reducing the cost of health care. What stands to be gained or lost by capping malpractice awards insofar as its effect on the availability and quality of health care? Many people believe that a cap [...]

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