The setting is a forested wilderness in the Northwest, circa 1911. The villain is a tall, egotistical woman doctor with an imposing jawline and a fierce will to dominate others. The victims are two wealthy English sisters, gullible health faddists after the fashion of those who flocked to Dr. Kellogg’s sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. But unlike Dr. Kellogg’s comparatively gentle method of diet plus enemas, Dr. Hazzard’s method was to literally starve her patients to death–and then defraud them of their valuables. Acclaimed true-crime writer Jack Olsen calls this book, “a literary and journalistic achievement of the highest order,” and says, “Gregg Olsen reinforces his standing as one of America’s greatest crime reporters, evoking the early twentieth century with a master’s touch. No reader will ever forget Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard and her sadistic technique of mass murder by starvation.”

Author: Gregg Olsen
Paperback:  432 pages
Company: Three Rivers Press  (2005-05-03) (2005-05-03)
ISBN: 1400097460
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Reliable source on medical liability law. Written by experts in the field, this Nutshell offers insight on establishing professional relationships and examines negligence-based claims, intentional torts, causation, damages, affirmative defenses, limitations, immunities, and liabilities.

Author: Marcia Boumil, Clifford E. Elias, Diane Bissonette Moes
Paperback:  316 pages
Company: West Publishing Company  (2003-07)
ISBN: 0314142959
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Malpractice insurance companies provide timely, accurate, cost-effective malpractice insurance to their clients. These insurance companies have been licensed by state law. They operate as insurers and sell products to clients who pay for premium policies. The policies of malpractice insurance companies vary with geographical location, organization or company, and specialties being offered. The existence (or lack) of malpractice insurance differs from state to state too. The success of a malpractice insurance company very much depends on the financial market and reasonability of awards from lawsuits.

Malpractice insurance companies offer policies that ensure long-term services to customers. There is, in fact, a reciprocal understanding that a malpractice insurance company will give money to its client in return for payment for premiums by the medical professional. For instance, let’s say a doctor is charged with negligence or malpractice in advocating a particular drug. If he is insured, the settlement is done by the malpractice insurance company.

Malpractice insurance companies offer insurance policies that clear the dues of the insured professional - attorney fees and court charges and, most importantly, settlement awards to complainants. Before providing its services, a malpractice insurance company takes a written consent in order to settle the claims made from the professional sued for malpractice.

The insurance companies thus work towards providing fair compensation to the complainant and at the same time offer malpractice insurance to protect specialized professionals in liability suits.

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