European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july 1985 childbirth centers face insurance crisis new a like Many Mary klan ski intended to have her baby in the Homey surroundings of a childbirth but now lots of expectant mothers Are making other As a nationwide insurance crisis threatens to put such centers and nurse midwives out of the family childbirth Center of new where Kiat ski had planned to deliver her third is one of 10 whose malpractice insurance is being an official of the 130center Industry said about on third of the facilities would end or curtail services by years forcing Many women to Hospital delivery i dont feel that a Hospital is any place to have a said who lives in birth is a healthy thing to be and a Hospital is a place to be at the new Haven she received guidance and exercise in natural child and her husband and two Young children were educated about the process of at the birthing rooms look like bedrooms rather than Hospital efforts arc made to avoid the use of High and the Center staffs can include nurses and malpractice insurance for the new Haven Center and nine others was terminated by Mutual Marine and Inland insurance of the which wrote group policies for 40 to 50 birthing centers and half of the nations said it has been unable to find risk the practice used by insurance companies to cover themselves against Mutual fire president Richard Guilfoyle said the Rise in malpractice claims is forcing insurers out of the birthing several childbirth centers have and like the new Haven Are curtailing said Pam towns director of the family childbirth they cant write insurance if they cant get Kitty director of the National association of  centers in said of the insurance Industry reluctance to continue offering malpractice Ernst said she expects that another 30 centers will be closed or on hold by 31 As policies come up for birthing which typically charge about half the Cost of a Hospital have delivered about babies in the last there Are about million births a year in the United in recent some hospitals have included wings that Cater to women much the Way birthing centers Townshend attributed the problem of liability insurance to litigious trial insurance companies and Competition Between obstetricians and a growing number of in annual malpractice premiums run More than and reach in some the insurance Industry lumps birthing centers and nurse midwives in with obstetricians when calculating risk of malpractice this is Ernst and others Only 6 percent of the nations nursemaid wives have been sued for malpractice since compared with 60 percent of obstetric according to the american College of nurse midwives in Ernst said there have been Only 15 such suits against her associations member Cen the centers care for Lowrick if complications the Mother is usually transferred to a Ernst resulting malpractice claims dont cite Only the Ernst everyone gets named who handled the in its called medical malpractice claims nationally have tripled in the last with More than 16 claims filed for every 100 according to the american medical Asso the average settlement is fear of litigation has resulted in a 2 per cent increase in the number of caesarean Many of which Are performed without regard to medical according to Diony Public policy Liaison for the International childbirth education As while the numbers of babies born in childbirth centers is to each woman the birth of her baby is a singular Young it would be a tragedy if that Avenue were closed uninvited guest May have stayed 17 years san Francisco up officials said they Are investigating reports that a janitor May have been living in a boiler room and cubbyhole in Llic 20 Story Federal office building for 17 Squir cling away his savings in Cash and Stock there Are a lot of rumours that he was living were investigating said no evidence against accountant says West Palm up specialist in detecting embezzlement says he found no evidence to support charges that retired air Force Richard Collins used secret spy Money for his own Miami accountant Marshall Kasen Testi fied Friday he examined All transactions made by Collins with the governments secret Swiss Bank used to fund spy missions in Southeast Asia and a highly decorated a fighter is charged with diverting from the spy fund to his personal account and keeping in from the review of All the records you did you find any evidence that any of the withdrawals from the interest bearing account went to the personal Benefit of Collins defense lawyer Stephen Bronis i found no evidence to that Kascin James a retired air Force officer who first established the secret Swiss account in disputed govern ment claims that Collins violated proce dures by putting the Money into an interest bearing personal Richards testified that there were no rules or regulations for the accounts maintenance or District judge James Paine Short circuited a defense attempt to enter testimony that the secret funds were used for illegal with the governments were you aware of monies expended for bribery defense lawyer Michael Burn Baum asked but Paine upheld government objections to the Paine told jurors to disregard the com ment saying lawyers questions Are not to be taken As Mary Filipini of the general services and which operates the Loyee fellow employees All insisting that their names be withheld said it was common knowledge that Virgil for 21 years a custodial employee of the had been Liv ing in a third floor storeroom for five years before in the boiler room and other cubbyhole for a total of 17 Johnson was on according to he told investigators he used the store room Only As an office to do paper other employees said they saw a hot bedding and other personal effects removed from the there was also reportedly a Large amount of As Well As some stocks and taken from the Filipini refused any comment on what was found and said it was not Clear How the room was being the discovery that someone was using the room was made when a contractor involved in maintenance on the third floor reported becoming ill from an odor coming from the mesmerized by mask up photo Carrie Bell of Denver is spellbound by an by he University of Pennsylvania to the exhibit includes three mummies of Egypt ancient egyptian Mummy mask on loan Denver museum of natural the Tian