Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Professional Liability Underwriters Feeling Pressure From COVID: AM Best
Dec 7 2020 // The COVID-19 pandemic is creating varying levels of disruption for writers in the U.S. professional liability insurance market, with many expecting a sizable increase in claims, according to a new AM Best report. With its...
U.S. Employers Have Right to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine. But Will They?
Dec 3 2020 // Private U.S. companies have the right under the law to require employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but are unlikely to do so because of the risks of legal and cultural backlash, experts said. Companies are still...
California Wants Hospitals to Test All Workers for Virus
Dec 2 2020 // California has asked hospitals to ramp up their coronavirus testing amid a surge of new cases, urging them to test health care workers at least once per week while testing all new patients before admitting them. California...
Health Workers, Nursing Homes Should Get First COVID Vaccines, Says CDC
Dec 2 2020 // A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday voted 13 to 1 to recommend that healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities should be first in line to receive...
Louisiana Court: ‘Collectibility’ Can’t Be Used to Limit Legal Malpractice Damage Amounts
Dec 1 2020 // Are a plaintiff’s damages in a legal malpractice case limited to the amount they could have collected in a judgement in the underlying lawsuit that an attorney was found to have mishandled? The Louisiana Supreme...
Nurses in North Dakota Worry About Working with Sick Colleagues
Nov 17 2020 // Like many medical workers around the world, the coronavirus pandemic is a burden that Fargo emergency room nurse Adam Johnston can’t escape. The grim reality follows him everywhere: at work, where people die every...
Professional Liability Underwriters Feeling Pressure From COVID: AM Best
Nov 13 2020 // The COVID-19 pandemic is creating varying levels of disruption for writers in the U.S. professional liability insurance market, with many expecting a sizable increase in claims, according to a new AM Best report. With its...
U.S. P/C Insurer Impairments Rise Slightly in 2019: AM Best
Nov 5 2020 // The U.S. property/casualty industry saw 13 new insurance company impairments in 2019, two more than in 2018, involving entities operating in a mix of lines of business and a variety of states, according to a new AM Best...
Judge in California OKs $78M Settlement by Air Medical Company
Oct 27 2020 // A judge has given final approval to a $78 million settlement by a medical helicopter company that was sued by its California flight crew employees over unpaid overtime and missed breaks. The decision last week by Alameda...
Workers’ Compensation Benefits at Risk for Healthcare Workers, Others
Oct 19 2020 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s June 17, 2020, order clarifying eligibility for workers’ compensation benefits for workplace exposure to COVID-19 is presumably overturned by the state supreme court’s...
Malpractice Claims Against Hospitals Hold Steady But Severity Increases
Oct 16 2020 // The frequency of hospital professional liability claims is holding steady, but the cost of those claims is expected to increase by 3% next year, according to an actuarial analysis by Aon and the American Society of Health...
Radiation Near Fracking Sites Poses Potential But Not Extreme Health Risk
Oct 14 2020 // Radiation levels downwind of U.S. hydraulic fracturing drilling sites tend to be significantly higher than background levels, posing a potential health risk to nearby residents, according to a study by Harvard researchers...
Insurers Remain Unfazed by Risks of Clinical Trials for COVID-19 Vaccine
Oct 12 2020 // The world is racing towards a vaccine in record time, stirring public concerns about safety to the extent that nine leading developers have felt compelled to issue a pledge to uphold scientific standards and testing...
Judges Dismisses $18M in Liens Filed by California Medical Provider Convicted of Fraud
Oct 1 2020 // An administrative law judge in California has dismissed liens valued at $18 million filed by convicted medical provider Michael E. Barri, bringing to a close one of the earliest cases aimed at combatting fraud in...
Beazley Expands Life Sciences Insurance Offering in UK
Sep 28 2020 // Specialist insurer Beazley has enhanced its life sciences insurance offering in the UK with the launch of a new policy designed to protect the sector’s small and start-up research & development-focused...
Louisiana Health System Cited for Coronavirus Safety Violations
Sep 15 2020 // A healthcare system in Shreveport, Louisiana, has been cited by federal workplace safety officials for failing to protect employees from coronavirus exposure. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
Lawyer: Minneapolis Healthcare Workers Improperly Accessed Floyd’s Medical Records
Sep 11 2020 // Family members of George Floyd have been notified that multiple employees of a Minneapolis healthcare system have improperly accessed the man’s medical records sometime in the last 30 days, an attorney for the family...
Michigan Healthcare System to Pay $104.7K to Settle Wage Discrimination Lawsuit
Sep 9 2020 // A non-profit health care system based in Saginaw, Mich., will pay $104,707 and provide other relief to settle a federal gender wage discrimination lawsuit. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in...
Tyson Foods to Pilot Medical Clinics for Workers at Some Meat Plants Next Year
Sep 4 2020 // Tyson Foods is planning to open medical clinics at several of its U.S. plants to improve the health of its workers and better protect them from the coronavirus. The Springdale, Arkansas-based company, which processes about...
U.S. Needs an SEC for Its Health Care System: Opinion
Aug 24 2020 // The U.S. health care system suffers from a lack of transparency. Employers, insurers and individual consumers pay varying prices for treatments, drugs and digital information of varying quality, without knowing whether the...
