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Senate Bill No. 634

(By Senators Kessler, Minard, Edgell, Bowman, McKenzie, Anderson, Facemyer, Hunter, Deem, Boley, Sharpe, Helmick, Fanning, Prezioso, Unger, Ross, Minear, Bailey and McCabe)

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[Introduced March 26, 2001; referred to the Committee on Government Organization.]

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A BILL to amend article twenty-b, chapter thirty-three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section ten, relating to establishing a medical malpractice insurance study task force.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article twenty-b, chapter thirty-three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section ten, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 20B. RATES AND MALPRACTICE INSURANCE POLICIES.

§33-20B-10. Medical malpractice insurance study task force.
The governor is hereby requested to appoint a task force to secure information, assemble the same and make its findings and recommendations to the Legislature regarding all of those factors affecting the cost to medical providers of medical malpractice insurance.
(a) The task force shall consist of eleven persons and shall include in its membership the insurance commissioner or his or her designee, one licensed West Virginia physician, one West Virginia hospital administrator, one attorney selected from the active list of the West Virginia state bar, one practicing attorney who is a member of the West Virginia trial lawyers association, one seated member of each of the houses of the West Virginia Legislature, one representative of the medical malpractice insurance industry, one consumer rights advocate and one professor of law from West Virginia University with an expertise in insurance law.
(b) The task force shall make its written report to the Legislature at its two thousand two regular session.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide the Legislature with sufficient data to enable it to deliberate any legislative action that the report might indicate in alleviating the high cost of medical malpractice insurance.

§33-20B-10 is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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