Word: argonauts
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...nothing expressionistic about Lautrec. He did not revel in the miseries of the soul, and even his most pathetic images come to us across a measured distance and through a focused sense of human absurdity. The painting that summed up Lautrec's sense of what Baudelaire, another wounded argonaut of the boulevards, called "the heroism of modern life" was At the Moulin Rouge, 1892-95. It is a gathering of Lautrec's tribe, his best male friends and the cabaret women who were the main characters of his art. It also seems to be Lautrec's most...
...warning did nothing to settle the doctors' complaints. New York's major malpractice insurer, the Argonaut Insurance Co. of Menlo Park, Calif., which has raised its premiums by a total of 200% in the past year, is leaving the state entirely on July 1. Doctors feel that the state legislature, which has already enacted a bill offering a doctor-owned alternative (TIME, June 9), must do more to protect them against the rising risk of being wiped out by malpractice suits. To ensure that it does, a number of doctors said last week that they were willing...
Insurance companies have responded by jacking up premium costs, which are passed along to patients in the form of higher doctor bills and hospital charges. By January the Argonaut Insurance Co., one of the nation's largest malpractice insurers, put doctors in a fighting mood by drastically raising rates. For example, the average annual premiums for high-risk specialists in California soared from $5,377 to $22,704. But the worst was still to come. This spring Argonaut and other companies sought yet another round of increases in some states and announced plans to dump malpractice coverage entirely...
...California walkout was the most drastic response yet to the steep rise in premiums set by one of the nation's leading malpractice insurers, Argonaut Insurance Co. of Menlo Park, Calif. (TIME, May 5). Claiming that soaring malpractice awards were causing it to lose money, Argonaut last January announced that beginning in May it would raise its premiums for Bay Area physicians by 200% to 300%. Most physicians reluctantly purchased at least temporary-and limited-coverage, but few of the area's anesthesiologists, whose premiums rose from $5,377 to as high as $22,704 per year, renewed...
...York State, where the Argonaut Insurance Co. plans to cancel coverage for 27,000 of the state's physicians and 48 hospitals on July 1 (the company was denied a 196.8% rate hike last December), Governor Hugh Carey has proposed a three-part relief package. The Governor's plan would create a state insurance fund, shorten the statute of limitations on malpractice suits, and make it easier to discipline doctors who make avoidable errors. California's state senate has passed and sent along to the legislature's lower house emergency, or "Band-Aid" bills to guarantee...