Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Michigan Health Care System to Pay $30K Over Racial Discrimination Suit
Jul 16 2024 // Beaumont Health (now Corewell Health), a health care system in southeast Michigan, will pay $30,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Texas Health System Loses COVID-19 Business Interruption Suit
Jul 15 2024 // A Texas nonprofit health system who purchased a specialized commercial property insurance policy is not covered for business interruption losses caused by COVID-19, a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled, relying on...
Texas Health System Loses COVID-19 Business Interruption Suit – 5th Circuit
Jun 28 2024 // A Texas nonprofit health system who purchased a specialized commercial property insurance policy is not covered for business interruption losses caused by COVID-19, a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled, relying on...
Hacked UK Trove of Medical Records Includes Data on Newborns, Cancer Patients
Jun 27 2024 // Hackers behind a London hospital attack recently published records that include personal information about pregnant women, newborns, cancer patients, people suffering from schizophrenia and thousands of others across the...
Chicago Health Care Company to Pay $2M To Settle False Claims Act Suit
Jun 20 2024 // A Chicago health care company and its former owners will pay nearly $2 million to the United States and the States of Illinois and Indiana to resolve a civil lawsuit arising from the submission of false claims to Medicare...
Top Insurer to Leave Colombia’s Public Health System Amid Petro Squeeze
May 29 2024 // One of Colombia’s biggest health insurers will gradually cease operations in the country’s public system to avoid further deterioration in its finances. Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana SA’s public...
People Moves: BMS Launches Global Healthcare Liability Unit, Led by Wendin From Carpenter; Gallagher Re Taps Hiscox’s Marling as UK COO
May 1 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at re/insurance brokers BMS and Gallagher. A summary of these new hires follows here. BMS Launches Global Healthcare Liability Unit, Led by Wendin From...
Delaware High Court Hands Agency a New Shot at Malpractice Claim Against Law Firm
Apr 23 2024 // A Delaware insurance agency has won another chance at proving a law firm was negligent in defending it in a non-compete dispute with another agency, a dispute it ended up settling for $1.2 million. The Delaware Supreme...
Co-Conspirator Sentenced for Damage, Unauthorized Access to Health System
Apr 15 2024 // A Rutland, Massachusetts man was sentenced in federal court in Worcester to conspiring to access a computer system of his former employer – a non-profit substance use and mental health treatment provider that operates...
Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Computers of Georgia City Police and Medical Clinic
Mar 28 2024 // Robert Purbeck, also known as “Lifelock,” and “Studmaster,” who hacked into the computer servers of the police department of Newnan, Georgia and a medical clinic in Griffin, Georgia, has pleaded...
UnitedHealth Unit Will Start Processing $14B Medical Claims Backlog After Hack
Mar 25 2024 // UnitedHealth Group said on Friday its Change Healthcare unit will start to process the medical claims backlog of more than $14 billion as it resumes some software services disrupted by a cyberattack last month. The company...
Markets/Coverages: QBE Creates UK Healthcare Practice With New Liability Product
Mar 13 2024 // QBE has created a Healthcare practice group and has launched a Healthcare Advantage Liability product. The Healthcare practice group will be supported by all regional offices in the UK and aims to provide a more focused...
MCI Syndicate-in-a-Box Gets Lloyd’s Nod to Provide Clinical Trial Funding Insurance
Feb 16 2024 // Asta, through its third-party managing agency at Lloyd’s, announced the “in-principle” approval of a syndicate-in-a-box (SIAB) to deliver a breakthrough insurance product that aims to accelerate the...
Court Nixes ‘Wrongful Life’ Framing in Upholding $38M Fertility Malpractice Award
Feb 8 2024 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that claims involving the evolving field of assisted reproductive technologies can be decided using traditional negligence and medical malpractice principles and do not require...
COVID Liability Immunity Includes Slips and Falls at Hospital – Alabama High Court
Jan 29 2024 // When the COVID-19 virus spread across the country three years ago, dozens of state legislatures approved statutes that granted health care providers immunity from legal actions brought by people who claimed to have been...
Webster Bank Closes Acquisition of Medical Claims Firm Ametros
Jan 25 2024 // Connecticut-based Webster Bank has completed the acquisition of Ametros Financial Corp., a firm that administers medical claims settlements. Ametros provides post-settlement medical administration for those receiving funds...
Risk Strategies Acquires Medical Liability Agency in Virginia
Jan 25 2024 // National specialty insurance brokerage Risk Strategies announced it has acquired Professional Risk Associates, Inc. (PRA), a Virginia-based specialty healthcare insurance agency focused on medical professional...
Medical Experts May be Needed, Even in Negligence Claims – Kentucky Supreme Court
Jan 19 2024 // When a baseball umpire, well-traveled in college conferences, went to a hospital for X-rays on his surgically repaired ankle in 2015, a hospital attendant pushing the ump’s wheelchair accidentally bumped his foot...
Alera Group Buys Med Mal Insurer CLS Healthcare Liability
Jan 19 2024 // Alera Group, an insurance and financial services firm in the U.S., announced the acquisition of CLS Healthcare Liability Specialists. Based in North Palm Beach, Florida, CLS provides malpractice coverage for physicians,...
GEICO Charges New York Pharmacy, Medical Clinics With $3.7M in Prescription Fraud
Dec 12 2023 // Insurance company GEICO has filed suit against a New York pharmacy and five medical clinics and their owners alleging they perpetrated a fraudulent scheme under the New York no-fault auto insurance system by submitting...
