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  Duane Castles, Prime's chairman and chief executive officer, says: "I am thrilled that Don has decided to join the Prime team.

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  Duane founded Prime Advisors, Inc, in 1988.He has overall responsibility for implementing investment policies for clients and supervising investment operations.Duane has been actively involved with both individual and institutional clients since 1983.Prior to founding Prime, Duane was at Seattle-Northwest Securities.He also managed the Municipal Bond Department at U.S. Bank in Portland, Oregon where he had overall responsibility for trading and underwriting.During his tenure, the bank,s bond trading earnings were consistently at record levels.Along with Vince Rowland, Duane developed the theory of Dynamic Cash Flow Risk Reward AnalysisSM, and the return on surplus portfolio analysis methodology for insurance company portfolios.
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  Duane graduated from Washington State University with a BA in Business Administration (Finance and Economics), and was both an MSRB (Municipal Securities) Registered Representative and an MSRB Principal.( Duane Castles - Chairman and Executive Officer)
  
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  Duane Castles - Chief Executive Officer: Present: Playing a Vital Role in the Industry - CICA's expanding membership is a tribute to its growing number of educational offerings and its efforts to keep top professionals informed of the latest developments or challenges in the industry.The CICA International Conference and the CICA Fall Seminar have emerged as two premier education and networking events, in part because of their unique, domicile-neutral perspective.
  
  Branch Captive: Is a unit of an existing offshore (alien) captive, currently licensed in Vermont to write employee benefit business for its owners and affiliates onshore.The branch is regulated as a pure captive, is taxed only on the branch writings and is required to use an onshore trust for the protection of US policyholders and ceding insurers.( duane castles)
  
  Duane Castles: PIAA Marketing Workshop!Lead and influence the direction of the industry,CICA members are seeking new ways to utilize captives to increase flexibility in program design, stabilize long-term program costs and increase access to domestic and off-shore reinsurance capability.Membership gives you a voice on the industry,s emerging issues and a forum to effect change and progress.
  
  Risk Retention Group: Is an entity created under the federal Liability Risk Retention Act, and licensed in any one state to write liability insurance; is regulated as a captive insurance company; and may operate nationwide, provided it properly registers with each state in which it proposes to solicit or write insurance.
  
  Duane Castles - Benefits of MembershipDUANE CASTLES , vice president of Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company.
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  Duane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA)Duane Castles - CICA: These innovative enterprises, dubbed "bedpan mutuals" by their commercial competitors, melded the skills and knowledge of physicians and insurance professionals into a new approach to addressing medical malpractice problems.
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  All ads and promotional materials are subject to approval by VCIA, and VCIA assumes no liability for content of any ads or promotional materials.( Duane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA))
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  Cancellation requests must be received in writing either by mail, email or fax.( Duane Castles - Benefits of Membership)
  
  Duane Castles - Chief Executive OfficerDuane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA): PIAA Forward - In 1977, the newly established doctor-owned companies formed the PIAA to provide a medium for information exchange and problem solving.
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  Duane Castles - Chairman and Executive OfficerService Provider Member,$2,000 - Individual whose primary business is acting as a service provider to captive insurance companies or risk retention groups.Service provider members do not have voting privileges.
  
  Encouraging effective alternative dispute resolution mechanisms
  
  duane castlesDuane founded Prime Advisors, Inc, in 1988.He has overall responsibility for implementing investment policies for clients and supervising investment operations.Duane has been actively involved with both individual and institutional clients since 1983.Prior to founding Prime, Duane was at Seattle-Northwest Securities.He also managed the Municipal Bond Department at U.S. Bank in Portland, Oregon where he had overall responsibility for trading and underwriting.During his tenure, the bank,s bond trading earnings were consistently at record levels.Along with Vince Rowland, Duane developed the theory of Dynamic Cash Flow Risk Reward AnalysisSM, and the return on surplus portfolio analysis methodology for insurance company portfolios.
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  Duane graduated from Washington State University with a BA in Business Administration (Finance and Economics), and was both an MSRB (Municipal Securities) Registered Representative and an MSRB Principal.
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  Duane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA)Duane founded Prime Advisors, Inc, in 1988.He has overall responsibility for implementing investment policies for clients and supervising investment operations.Duane has been actively involved with both individual and institutional clients since 1983.Prior to founding Prime, Duane was at Seattle-Northwest Securities.He also managed the Municipal Bond Department at U.S. Bank in Portland, Oregon where he had overall responsibility for trading and underwriting.During his tenure, the bank,s bond trading earnings were consistently at record levels.Along with Vince Rowland, Duane developed the theory of Dynamic Cash Flow Risk Reward AnalysisSM, and the return on surplus portfolio analysis methodology for insurance company portfolios.
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  Duane graduated from Washington State University with a BA in Business Administration (Finance and Economics), and was both an MSRB (Municipal Securities) Registered Representative and an MSRB Principal.
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  Duane Castles - Executive OfficerDuane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA): As a leader in the industry, CICA has also taken on the responsibility of recognizing other leaders and visionaries.
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  Because the legislation was rushed to a vote so quickly, however, it is not clear if Members of Congress fully understood the possible effect of the reporting requirement, and may have instead only focused on its potential cost-savings for Medicare.( Duane Castles: PIAA Marketing Workshop!)
  
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  Duane Castles - Benefits of MembershipDuane Castles - Executive Officer: Captive/Risk Retention Member,$700 - Primary job duties are owning, administering or managing a captive insurance company or risk retention group.
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  Duane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA)Regulatory Affairs - The PIAA Regulatory Affairs Committee is charged with the responsibility of monitoring activities of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and representing the Association before that body when issues of interest arise.As the broad-based activities of the NAIC often do not consider the effects on professional liability insurers, the PIAA plays an important role in seeing that our members' interests are not overlooked in major issues affecting the property and casualty industry in general.The PIAA also works with rating agencies, such as AM Best, to represent the unique requirements of medical malpractice insurers.A new operational committee of the Board of Directors was created in 2000 as a structured way to provide member company input into this process.
  
  Duane founded Prime Advisors, Inc, in 1988.He has overall responsibility for implementing investment policies for clients and supervising investment operations.Duane has been actively involved with both individual and institutional clients since 1983.Prior to founding Prime, Duane was at Seattle-Northwest Securities.

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  To see a summary of NRRA activities please visit the History page of this web site under "Gov't Relations".( Duane Castles - Benefits of Membership)
  
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  Duane Castles - Executive OfficerThese innovative enterprises, dubbed "bedpan mutuals" by their commercial competitors, melded the skills and knowledge of physicians and insurance professionals into a new approach to addressing medical malpractice problems.Today, the nation's physician and dentist-owned medical malpractice insurance companies dominate this market, providing protection to more than 60% of all physicians in private practice in the United States.
  
  Rockville, MD - June 6, 2008 - The Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA), a tradeassociation that represents physician and other healthcare provider-owned and/or -operatedmedical professional liability insurance companies, recently elected a new slate of officers anddirectors during its 31st Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.( duane castles - Chairman)
  
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  Duane Castles - Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerWhy Form a Captive?One of the chief functions of a captive is to facilitate the efficient financing of risk within an organization.In addition, captives form part of the overall financial planning structure for a corporation; act as a shield against upswings and downturns in the commercial market; serve as a direct insurance company that issues policies to subsidiaries in a group or, can serve as a reinsurance company that assumes risks behind commercial insurers.
  
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  Duane Castles - Benefits of Membership: Worse yet, as malpractice insurance became too expensive or unavailable altogether, many physicians began limiting their practice or stopped practicing entirely.For example, the insurance crisis meant many rural areas lacked access to any OB/GYN services.
  
  Single-Owner Captive: Also referred to as "pure captive", insures only the risks of the owner or the owner's subsidiary operations.
  
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  Duane Castles , Prime's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We used to compete head-to-head for clients. His innate intelligence, industry depth of knowledge, and drive to deliver the best investment solutions for his clients made him a formidable opponent."
  
  Castles continued, "I am thrilled that Don has decided to join the Prime team.

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  Duane Castles - National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
  
  The PIAA organized and led a coalition of insurance and health industry organizations responsible for blocking new Data Bank rules which would have focused insurers to replace the court system in identifying individual practitioners to be reported to the Data Bank. Duane Castles - Piaa The PIAA worked with Members of Congress to instigate a General Accounting Office review of NPDB operations, questioning its departure from its statutory mission and large monetary surplus.
  
  Duane Castles - Health Care Liability Alliance
  
  The PIAA, individually and through its leadership of the Health Care Liability Alliance, has led a successful campaign to keep federal healthcare liability reform on the radar screen of Congress. Meaningful tort reforms, to include a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages, have passed the House of Representatives six times in the past five years and were under serious consideration in the Senate during the Patient's Bill of Rights debate in 2000. Duane Castles The PIAA was the only organization to measure the costs of repealing the ERISA preemption that would be borne by physicians and other healthcare provides. Duane Castles
  
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  Duane Castles - Chairman and Executive Officer Sponsorship Cancellation Policy - For non-conference sponsorships, cancellations made more than 60 days before the event will be refunded without penalty.If cancellation is received less than 60 days from the day of the event, VCIA maintains a cancellation penalty of 50% of ... http://duanecastles3.blogsome.com/2008/06/23/duane-castles-2/ duane castlesDuane Castles - Chairman and Executive Officer Sponsorship Cancellation Policy - For non-conference sponsorships, cancellations made more than 60 days before the event will be refunded without penalty.

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  Duane Castles, Prime's Chairman & CEO, said, "Scott's arrival at Prime
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  Duane Castles - Chairman and Executive Officer
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  Duane founded Prime Advisors, Inc, in 1988.He has overall responsibility for implementing investment policies for clients and supervising investment operations.Duane has been actively involved with both individual and institutional clients since 1983.Prior to founding Prime, Duane was at Seattle-Northwest Securities.He also managed the Municipal Bond Department at U.S. Bank in Portland, Oregon where he had overall responsibility for trading and underwriting.During his tenure, the bank,s bond trading earnings were consistently at record levels.Along with Vince Rowland, Duane developed the theory of Dynamic Cash Flow Risk Reward AnalysisSM, and the return on surplus portfolio analysis methodology for insurance company portfolios.
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  Duane graduated from Washington State University with a BA in Business Administration (Finance and Economics), and was both an MSRB (Municipal Securities) Registered Representative and an MSRB Principal.( Duane Castles - Chairman and Executive Officer)
  
  Duane Castles - Chairman and Chief Executive Officerduane castles: Ad Cancellation Policy - Ad cancellations made more than 60 days prior to the publication?s artwork deadline will be refunded without penalty.If cancellation is received less than 60 days prior to the publication's artwork deadline, VCIA maintains a cancellation penalty of 50% of the ad fees.Cancellation requests must be received in writing either by mail, email or fax. duane castlesduane castles piaaDuane Castles - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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  Duane Castles - Chief Executive Officer: Present: Playing a Vital Role in the Industry - CICA's expanding membership is a tribute to its growing number of educational offerings and its efforts to keep top professionals informed of the latest developments or challenges in the industry.The CICA International Conference and the CICA Fall Seminar have emerged as two premier education and networking events, in part because of their unique, domicile-neutral perspective.
  
  Branch Captive: Is a unit of an existing offshore (alien) captive, currently licensed in Vermont to write employee benefit business for its owners and affiliates onshore.The branch is regulated as a pure captive, is taxed only on the branch writings and is required to use an onshore trust for the protection of US policyholders and ceding insurers.( duane castles)
  
  Duane Castles: PIAA Marketing Workshop!Lead and influence the direction of the industry,CICA members are seeking new ways to utilize captives to increase flexibility in program design, stabilize long-term program costs and increase access to domestic and off-shore reinsurance capability.Membership gives you a voice on the industry,s emerging issues and a forum to effect change and progress.
  
  Risk Retention Group: Is an entity created under the federal Liability Risk Retention Act, and licensed in any one state to write liability insurance; is regulated as a captive insurance company; and may operate nationwide, provided it properly registers with each state in which it proposes to solicit or write insurance.
  
  Duane Castles - Benefits of MembershipDUANE CASTLES , vice president of Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company.
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  Duane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA)Duane Castles - CICA: These innovative enterprises, dubbed "bedpan mutuals" by their commercial competitors, melded the skills and knowledge of physicians and insurance professionals into a new approach to addressing medical malpractice problems.
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  All ads and promotional materials are subject to approval by VCIA, and VCIA assumes no liability for content of any ads or promotional materials.( Duane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA))
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  Cancellation requests must be received in writing either by mail, email or fax.( Duane Castles - Benefits of Membership)
  
  Duane Castles - Chief Executive OfficerDuane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA): PIAA Forward - In 1977, the newly established doctor-owned companies formed the PIAA to provide a medium for information exchange and problem solving.
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  Duane Castles - Chairman and Executive OfficerService Provider Member,$2,000 - Individual whose primary business is acting as a service provider to captive insurance companies or risk retention groups.Service provider members do not have voting privileges.
  
  Encouraging effective alternative dispute resolution mechanisms
  
  duane castlesDuane founded Prime Advisors, Inc, in 1988.He has overall responsibility for implementing investment policies for clients and supervising investment operations.Duane has been actively involved with both individual and institutional clients since 1983.Prior to founding Prime, Duane was at Seattle-Northwest Securities.He also managed the Municipal Bond Department at U.S. Bank in Portland, Oregon where he had overall responsibility for trading and underwriting.During his tenure, the bank,s bond trading earnings were consistently at record levels.Along with Vince Rowland, Duane developed the theory of Dynamic Cash Flow Risk Reward AnalysisSM, and the return on surplus portfolio analysis methodology for insurance company portfolios.
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  Duane graduated from Washington State University with a BA in Business Administration (Finance and Economics), and was both an MSRB (Municipal Securities) Registered Representative and an MSRB Principal.
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  Duane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA)Duane founded Prime Advisors, Inc, in 1988.He has overall responsibility for implementing investment policies for clients and supervising investment operations.Duane has been actively involved with both individual and institutional clients since 1983.Prior to founding Prime, Duane was at Seattle-Northwest Securities.He also managed the Municipal Bond Department at U.S. Bank in Portland, Oregon where he had overall responsibility for trading and underwriting.During his tenure, the bank,s bond trading earnings were consistently at record levels.Along with Vince Rowland, Duane developed the theory of Dynamic Cash Flow Risk Reward AnalysisSM, and the return on surplus portfolio analysis methodology for insurance company portfolios.
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  Duane graduated from Washington State University with a BA in Business Administration (Finance and Economics), and was both an MSRB (Municipal Securities) Registered Representative and an MSRB Principal.
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  Duane Castles - Executive OfficerDuane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA): As a leader in the industry, CICA has also taken on the responsibility of recognizing other leaders and visionaries.
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  Because the legislation was rushed to a vote so quickly, however, it is not clear if Members of Congress fully understood the possible effect of the reporting requirement, and may have instead only focused on its potential cost-savings for Medicare.( Duane Castles: PIAA Marketing Workshop!)
  
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  Duane Castles - Benefits of MembershipDuane Castles - Executive Officer: Captive/Risk Retention Member,$700 - Primary job duties are owning, administering or managing a captive insurance company or risk retention group.
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  Duane Castles - Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA)Regulatory Affairs - The PIAA Regulatory Affairs Committee is charged with the responsibility of monitoring activities of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and representing the Association before that body when issues of interest arise.As the broad-based activities of the NAIC often do not consider the effects on professional liability insurers, the PIAA plays an important role in seeing that our members' interests are not overlooked in major issues affecting the property and casualty industry in general.The PIAA also works with rating agencies, such as AM Best, to represent the unique requirements of medical malpractice insurers.A new operational committee of the Board of Directors was created in 2000 as a structured way to provide member company input into this process.
  
  Duane founded Prime Advisors, Inc, in 1988.He has overall responsibility for implementing investment policies for clients and supervising investment operations.Duane has been actively involved with both individual and institutional clients since 1983.Prior to founding Prime, Duane was at Seattle-Northwest Securities.He also ma

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  Duane Castles - National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
  
  The PIAA organized and led a coalition of insurance and health industry organizations responsible for blocking new Data Bank rules which would have focused insurers to replace the court system in identifying individual practitioners to be reported to the Data Bank.
  
  Duane Castles - Piaa
  
  The PIAA worked with Members of Congress to instigate a General Accounting Office review of NPDB operations, questioning its departure from its statutory mission and large monetary surplus.
  
  Duane Castles - Health Care Liability Alliance
  
  The PIAA, individually and through its leadership of the Health Care Liability Alliance, has led a successful campaign to keep federal healthcare liability reform on the radar screen of Congress.Meaningful tort reforms, to include a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages, have passed the House of Representatives six times in the past five years and were under serious consideration in the Senate during the Patient's Bill of Rights debate in 2000.Duane Castles
  
  The PIAA was the only organization to measure the costs of repealing the ERISA preemption that would be borne by physicians and other healthcare provides.& nbsp; Duane Castles
  
  The Association, armed with actuarial data, conducted a successful educational campaign to inform providers, the insurance industry and Members of Congress about this issue.
  
  The PIAA successfully lobbied for changes to the Y2K Act that would have exposed healthcare providers to personal injury liability due to Y2K failure, but could have limited their ability to recover damages from manufacturers of malfunctioning devices and equipment.Duane Castles
  
  The PIAA has closely tracked privacy legislation and regulations to identify issues unique to professional liability insurers, such as those pertaining to the sharing of confidential medical information used in the administration of malpractice claims.Our formal comments have been submitted to Congress and are under consideration.
  
  Original research performed by the PIAA served as the catalyst for the Congressional Budget Office to score the effects of adopting tort reforms on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, once thought to be impossible to accomplish.Duane Castles
  
  Duane Castles - Risk Management & Research
  
  The PIAA continues to maintain the PIAA Data Sharing Project, which now has detailed data over 170,000 medical and dental malpractice claims.In addition to standard periodic reports, numerous special analyses are performed each year for PIAA members regarding special areas of concern which are used in risk management, claims administration and underwriting deliberations.Duane Castles
  
  The Association published a new products, Claim Trends, using information reported to the PIAA Data Sharing Project.This data, both aggregate and detailed, is helpful to members in establishing payment trends and assisting in reserving analyses.The PIAA also participated in collaborative risk management research studies with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American College of Radiology, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the American Academy of Dermatology, and the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy.Duane Castles
  
  The Association held special fact-finding symposiums regarding the liability aspects of telemedicine and medication errors, the latter being co-sponsored by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
  
  Duane Castles - Insurance Regulations
  
  The PIAA monitors activities of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to represent the unique interests of its members.Members are kept informed of pending regulatory changes which may affect their businesses.Duane Castles
  
  The PIAA was very successful in demonstrating changes necessary to the Property and Casualty Risk Based Capital formula to properly address claims-made insurance reserves.The Association also successfully lobbied for a risk-based capital exemption for single state writers.
  
  Duane Castles - Amicus Briefs
  
  The PIAA participated in a number of amicus briefs to support state-based cases where tort reforms may be threatened.
  
  Duane Castles - Antitrust Policy
  
  The PIAA is an industry trade association dedicated to furthering the interests of its members in areas related to professional liability.The Association contemplates involvement in educational, legislative, regulatory and loss prevention endeavors.In undertaking this involvement, the Association has had a long standing and important policy to comply fully with all laws applicable to its operations and the operations of its members.Duane Castles
  
  Compliance with the antitrust laws has been and remains a fundamental part of this policy.This policy acknowledges that members should be able to compete vigorously and ethically, but always in compliance with the laws of the United States, including the antitrust laws.The Association intends to comply with such laws and to operate in accordance with the highest moral, ethical and legal standards.It supports those efforts of its membership to compete fairly and believes that the economy, the public, and the Association's members will benefit most if businesses compete vigorously, free from unreasonable restraints.Duane Castles
  
  To this end, the Association undertakes, and encourages all members to undertake, to conduct its and their affairs free of any action or intent to influence competition or otherwise control free trade.Members of the PIAA are asked to adhere to this policy with respect to all of their interactions with the Association, including their attendance at meetings and participation in other Association sponsored functions.
  
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  04.07.08 (10:59 am) [edit]
  
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  Duane Castles - National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
  
  The PIAA organized and led a coalition of insurance and health industry organizations responsible for blocking new Data Bank rules which would have focused insurers to replace the court system in identifying individual practitioners to be reported to the Data Bank.
  
  Duane Castles - Piaa
  
  The PIAA worked with Members of Congress to instigate a General Accounting Office review of NPDB operations, questioning its departure from its statutory mission and large monetary surplus.
  
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