The lower frequency of English-language web sites with alternative medicine compared to German-language web sites may be due to the legal practices in the US to hold content providers responsible for what can be regarded as 'Internet fraud', leading to high indemnities (Mack, 2001).
Mr Kearns, a married father of three, was not in court to hear Judge Richard Seymour QC make a costs order against him on the higher indemnity basis, with an interim payment due of £150,000.
7 An evaluation of workman's compensation data revealed that the number of lost workdays was almost 13 times higher, medical claims costs were 7 times higher, and indemnity claims costs were 11 times higher among the heaviest employees compared with those of recommended weight.
Only obstetrics and gynecologic surgery had a higher average indemnity payment at $385,777.
Interestingly, of the seven specialties included in this study, pediatrics and internal medicine had the second and third highest average indemnity payment respectively.
Low-liability risk specialties on the other hand had a significantly higher average indemnity payment when the claim went to trial and resulted in a plaintiff verdict (p <0.05).
Like Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity, a high-quality shot can be multilayered and complex: rich, sexy, sweet, but also fast and smooth--maybe even a little dangerous--with a hint of a bitter edge.
As a percentage of total indemnity payouts, high-liability risk specialty indemnity payouts accounted for 61% compared to 39% for low-liability risk specialties (Table 1).
Obstetric and gynecologic surgery accounted for the highest percentage of total indemnity payouts by far (34%) followed by internal medicine (18%), general surgery (17%), and general and family practice (15%).
