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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, July 16,1975
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Doctors would
ATLANTA (UPI) — The president of the Georgia Medi
cal Association Tuesday proposed to a state Senate
committee a publication ban on malpractice settlements,
to keep Georgia’s malpractice insurance rates low.
Dr. David Wells said “a vast number of malpractice
suits are filed strictly because an individual has read in
the paper of a suit filed against a physician for $2 million.”
He made several proposals to the Human Resources
Committee, holding hearings on possible malpractice
legislation.
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GMA Legislative Director Rusty Kidd said that Georgia
malpractice insurance rates are among the lowest in the
country and the GMA seeks to prevent them from getting
any higher. He said such insurance ranges from $366 per
year to $3,520.
A Georgia Hospital Association spokesman said the
biggest problem hospitals face is not high costs but low
availability. He said only seven insurance companies in
the country offer the insurance, compared with the 23
firms that used to. He said Grady hospital in Atlanta is
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now searching for a malpractice insurance policy after its
company stopped insuring for malpractice.
Wells also suggested that jurors hearing malpractice
cases be made aware of prior payments to injury victims
and that the statute of limitations covering injuries to
children be reduced.
He proposed the creation of a arbitration board with all
parties involved in a malpractice suit accepting the
board’s decision beforehand.
The GMA, he said, feels the arbitration board would
speed up the court process in malpractice suits and cut
costs considerably.
Glenn Frick, chairman of the Georgia Bar Association’s
medical committee, said Wells’ proposals wouldn’t help
decrease costs—“it’ll all come out about the same”—
and the proposals would not solve the real problem, which
he said was the availabilty of the insurance.
The committee meets again today to get views on
malpractice insurance from doctors, lawyers and hospital
officials.
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Atlanta couples robbed
ATLANTA (UPI) — Two Atlanta area couples were
robbed in their homes Tuesday of a total of $42,000 in cash,
jewelry and savings bonds, authorities said.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Ross called the two thieves “very
polite” who robbed them of $27,000 worth of cash and
jewelry after they were tied up at gunpoint.
Ross said he asked a man he saw in his northwest
Atlanta backyard, “Who are you?” and the man asked
him the same question. He said a second man appeared
and marched him into the house where the Rosses were
tied up. The men made off with $560 in cash, two watches
and two rings, with one ring being valued at $20,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sims were robbed of $15,000 in “life
savings” by two men DeKalb County police said “knew
what they were looking for.”
Mrs. Sims said two men knocked at the door of her
Tucker home and “said something about signing my
grandson up for a ball team.”
“Then they each pulled out guns,” she said.
She said the bandits went straight to the back of the
master bedroom and stole a strongbox containing $15,000
in savings bonds.
Police said a third man waited in the car at the Sims
house while the couple was bound with coathangers.
Authorities said descriptions of the two robbery teams
were different and it was not believed that the robberies
were connected.
FBI cracks car ring
ATLANTA (UPI) — The FBI announced Tuesday the
breaking up of an interstate stolen car ring after a two
year investigation.
Wilburn K. Deßruler, special agent in charge of the
bureau’s Atlanta office, said four arrests were made
Tuesday and three men were still being sought.
Arrested in Atlanta were Randall Guy Brady, 26,
Charles Junior Fife, 39, Albert Mason, 50, and Benjamin
Franklin Sheriff, 51, all of Atlanta.
Deßruler said the four were part of a stolen car ring
based in Atlanta.
“We recovered the stolen vehicles in Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana and Texas,” he said.
The men werre charged June 25 by a federal grand jury
charged with 35 counts of interstate transport of stolen
vehicles and conspiracy.
A fifth indicted man, Vance Alexander Dobbins, 34, of
Chattanooga, Tenn., has been located in custody in the
Hamilton County Workhouse in Chattanooga, an FBI
spokesman said.
Jackson won’t participate
ATLANTA (UPI) — Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson
said Tuesday he would not participate in a youth program
because its chairman, Alabama Gov. George Wallace, has
shown a “callous disregard for and oppression of black
youth.”
Jackson said he wrote Birmingham, Ala. Mayor George
Seibels that he was unable to accept an invitation and felt
‘‘compelled to question the sincerity of the involvement of
Gov. George Wallace as chairman.”
Six killed in wrecks
By United Press International
Six persons were killed and one seriously injured
Tuesday in highway traffic accidents in Georgia. Four
died in two separate head-on collisions.
The Georgia State Patrol reported that Levada Olevia
Pridgen Merrit, 41, and Beatrice Jowers, 51, both of
Douglas, were killed Tuesday afternoon when their car
crashed head-on into another vehicle. The accident
occured just outside the Douglas city limits on Georgia
158. The patrol said one of the vehicles was driving on the
wrong side of the road.
Ray Duncan Dailey, 30, of Gainesville was killed
Tuesday afternoon in another two car head-on collision.
Billy Wayne Westbrooks, 33, of Eastanollee was seriously
injured in that accident that occured cm Georgia 195 five
miles north of Jefferson in Jackson County.
Mr. and Mrs. James Morgan Jr., an elderly couple from
North Braddock, Pa., were killed near Augusta late Tues
day afternoon on the Bobby Jones Expressway. The patrol
said the Morgan car failed to stop at a stop sign and was
struck in the side by another vehicle.
Edwin Eddas, 70, of Social Cirde was killed late
Tuesday afternoon when his car ran off a road and struck
a house in Social Cirde. The patrol said it was thought
that Ecklas was ill when his car ran off Georgia 11 in
Walton County.
Carter campaigns
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI) — Former Gov. Jimmy
Carter makes his first visit to Minnesota as a 1976
Democratic presidential candidate today and will speak
at the Minnesota DFL Jefferson Forum dinner in
Minneapolis tonight.
Carter also plans to have a news conference and appear
at a reception.
Carter is on a campaign swing through the Midwest.