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The physicians who founded medical-liability defense
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In 1899 two Fort Wayne physicians, Dr. Alpheus P. Buchman and Dr. Miles F. Porter, founded the Physicians' Guarantee Company in Fort Wayne. The company sold pre-paid legal service for the defense of medical malpractice suits; its own history calls the Physicians' Guarantee Company the first company in the United States to defend healthcare providers against malpractice claims. In 1902 the Physicians' Guarantee Company became the Physicians' Defense Company. In 1907 two of its men, Byron H. Somers and Charles M. Niezer, left to found The Medical Protective Company, and in 1913 Medical Protective acquired the Physicians' Defense Company, bringing the two lines back under one house — the line that runs to today's MedPro Group, still headquartered in Fort Wayne. The company's full record stands in the Business section. The record reached for this history carries the two founders' names and their founding, and no fuller individual account of either man.
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- § 05 — business (MedPro Group)
From the Business record's MedPro Group entry, built from MedPro Group's own history and the dated press record.