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Malpractice Insurance and Professional Liability
on Your Career in Healthcare
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Nobody likes to think about liability insurance, but it's a topic that every medical professional needs to understand. Whether you're just starting your career in medicine, or are a seasoned professional, the topic of malpractice insurance can be confusing. Will Galtney, chairman of Galtney Enterprises, Cedar Equities, Oxford Insurance Services, and Gessner Holdings, LLC, joins host Shane Jackson to explain the continually changing medical malpractice landscape.
R. Shane Jackson is executive vice president of Jackson Healthcare, a provider of healthcare information technology, staffing and resources, and he is both president and CEO of LocumTenens.com, a full-service locum tenens recruiting agency. At Jackson Healthcare, Mr. Jackson is responsible for overseeing all investments, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures for the company. He also oversaw the start-up in 2009 of AdvancedPractice.com, a full-service recruiting agency specializing in placing nurse practitioners and physician assistants.Mr. Jackson previously served as president of Patient Placement Systems, a healthcare technology company providing software for referring and placing patients that require care after leaving the hospital. In 2000, he co-founded and acted as president of NextStart Capital, where he oversaw and directed numerous fundraising and acquisition transactions.Mr. Jackson earned an MBA, with honors, from Emory University, where he was one of a distinguished group of students selected for the institution's accelerated three-semester degree program. He also holds a BBA from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas.Mr. Jackson was named one of Atlanta's "Top 40 Under 40" by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in 2008. He also serves as board chair for Mission Predisan, a Christian, not-for-profit healthcare organization that provides health and educational services to the people of eastern Honduras through over 40,000 patient contacts annually.
William F. Galtney, Jr. is chairman of Galtney Enterprises, Cedar Equities, Oxford Insurance Services, and Gessner Holdings, LLC. He started the Galtney Group (GGI) in 1983 specializing in brokering and underwriting medical malpractice insurance for healthcare providers throughout the United States. One of GGI's subsidiaries, Healthcare Insurance Services (HIS), grew to become the 21st largest insurance brokerage company in the United States. HIS was the broker for over 60,000 physicians and over 500 hospitals and was sold in 2001.
Mr. Galtney is a founding director of NYSE Everest Reinsurance Company. He has served as a director/trustee of the Greater Houston Community Foundation, Memorial Hermann Hospital System, Episcopal High School, University of Mississippi Foundation and as past chairman of the Houston Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization.
Mr. Galtney received a BA and MPA from the University of Mississippi. He is a member of the University of Mississippi Hall of Fame.
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