[DOWNLOAD] "Alfred L. Shapiro v. Health Insurance Plan Greater New York Et Al." by Court of Appeals of New York # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

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Title: Alfred L. Shapiro v. Health Insurance Plan Greater New York Et Al.
Author : Court of Appeals of New York
Release Date : January 25, 1959
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 71 KB

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[7 N.Y.2d 56 Page 58] This action for libel and slander was brought by a physician-surgeon against Health Insurance Corporation (HIP) and against
Dr. Baehr, its president and medical director, and Dr. Daily who was the vice-president, deputy medical director and Medical
Control Board chairman of HIP. HIP is a nonprofit membership corporation which sells medical expense indemnity insurance (see
Insurance Law, art. IX-C) to some 500,000 insurees. The indemnified medical care is made available to the insured persons
by 32 partnerships of physicians. Each partnership is called a Medical Group. An insured person chooses a particular Group
for his medical care. Each Medical Group is an independent contractor with HIP and each has in its membership general practitioners
and specialists, including surgeons. The contracts between the Medical Groups and HIP and between HIP and its insureds provide
that medical services are to be rendered in accordance with accepted medical and surgical practices and in accordance with
standards adopted by the Medical Control Board of HIP. That Control Board has 15 members. Two of them (defendants Baehr and
Daily) were employees or officials of HIP, 5 represented the Medical Groups and 8 were prominent physicians from the community.