Insurers Are Hiring Doctors With History of Malpractice to Decide on Coverage

This story was originally published by ProPublica and The Capitol Forum. When Shawn Murphy’s wife died in 2009 after a botched gallbladder surgery, he presumed the doctor who performed the operation would be forced out of medicine for good. Dr. Pachavit Kasemsap, a former Air Force surgeon, had cut Loretta Murphy’s aorta during that common procedure, according to a database of malpractice payments...

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