Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
CONN. WEIGHS ALTERNATIVE TO LAWSUIT CAP:
Jan 12 2004 // A legislative report recommends that the state create an emergency fund to help doctors pay their skyrocketing medical malpractice insurance premiums. The report for the Program Review and Investigations Committee proposed...
Miss. Tort Reform In Play As Lawyers Flock to Magnolia State
Jan 12 2004 // Problems and states come in all different shapes and sizes. For the insurance industry, keeping an eye on tort reform in Mississippi has been an item of importance in recent years. For the American Insurance Associ-ation...
Wash. State Leaders Aim to Control Med-Mal Insurance Premiums
Jan 7 2004 // Washington Gov. Gary Locke, House Speaker Frank Chopp, Senate Democratic Leader Lisa Brown and state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler recently unveiled a proposal to help improve the safety of medical patients and...
New Doctor-Owned Company Gets Go-Ahead from Ky. Department
Dec 31 2003 // Healthcare Underwriters Group of Kentucky (HUGKY), a medical professional liability insurance company owned by Kentucky doctors, has received authorization from the Kentucky Department of Insurance to begin operations. The...
New Med-Mal Insurer to Begin Covering Ohio in January
Dec 23 2003 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin announced that OHA Insurance Solutions (OHAIS) Inc. has been licensed to begin selling medical liability coverage statewide to a limited number of physicians...
NO HIKE FOR TEXAS PROVIDER:
Dec 15 2003 // Texas Insurance Commissioner José Montemayor rejected rate hikes requested by the Texas Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting Associ-ation, also known as the Joint Underwriting Association (JUA). According to the Texas...
MDI: 2002 Med-Mal Payments Didn’t Keep Pace With Injuries
Dec 11 2003 // Severity of patient injuries reached an all-time high for medical malpractice payments in 2002, but victim awards have not kept pace with inflation and increasing disabilities, the Missouri Department of Insurance said in...
Crackdown on N.Y. No-Fault Fraud Reportedly Begins to Pay Dividends as Costs Show Slight Decline
Dec 10 2003 // The vigorous crackdown on insurance fraud and abuse spearheaded by New York’s insurance companies, law enforcement agencies and prosecutors, and supported by tough insurance department regulations and a statewide...
Trio of Insurers File Largest No-Fault Lawsuit in N.Y. History
Dec 4 2003 // The Allstate Insurance Company, Encompass Insurance and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company on Wednesday filed a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) action in the Supreme Court of New York against 74...
Liberty Mutual, MetLife A&H Recoup $2 Million in Fraud Suit against Mass. Lawyers, Medical Clinic
Dec 3 2003 // Score one for the industry! Liberty Mutual Group and MetLife Auto & Home announced settlements of around $2 million – in their favor- in a multi-million dollar insurance fraud suit against attorneys and medical...
Ohio Director Wants $12 Million for Med Mal JUA
Dec 3 2003 // Ohio Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin testified today before the state’s House Insurance Committee to advocate for changes that would protect $12 million for medical malpractice initiatives and provide the...
A.M. Best Comments on FSR Sierra Health Services’ Health Care Entities
Dec 2 2003 // A.M. Best Co. has commented on the financial strength rating of B+ (Very Good) of Sierra Health Services Inc.’s HMO and health insurance entities. A.M. Best’s comments follow Sierra’s announcement of the...
Med Mal Reform Still a Priority for Bush
Dec 1 2003 // In a speech at a Republican fundraiser last week, President George W. Bush reaffirmed his commitment to passing federal medical liability reform legislation. “For the sake of our health care system, we need to cut...
New Approaches by Physicians, Underwriters and Actuaries Reportedly Needed to Address Med-Mal Crisis
Nov 28 2003 // With medical malpractice reform reportedly unlikely at the federal level and in many crisis states, insurers unable to make a profit and coverage for doctors unaffordable, new ways are needed to manage the risk, panelists...
Pa. Gov. Drops Mcare Reform, HAP Warns Delay Jeopardizes Patients’ Access to Care
Nov 26 2003 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell has apparently thrown in the towel on reforming the state’s medical malpractice insurance crisis this year, provoking an angry reaction from the medical community. He announced...
Sierra Health Services to Sell Its Workers’ Comp Subsidiary
Nov 26 2003 // Sierra Health Services Inc. announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its workers’ compensation subsidiary, California Indemnity Insurance Co. Inc. (CIIC) to Folksamerica Holdings Co. Inc....
TDI Denies Rate Increase Request by Med-Mal Provider
Nov 25 2003 // Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Commissioner Jose Montemayor has rejected rate hikes requested by the Texas Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting Association, also known as the Joint Underwriting Association...
Sierra Health Services to Sell Its Workers’ Comp Subsidiary
Nov 25 2003 // Sierra Health Services Inc. announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its workers’ compensation subsidiary, California Indemnity Insurance Co. Inc. (CIIC) to Folksamerica Holdings Co. Inc....
TDI Denies Rate Increase Request by Med-Mal Provider
Nov 24 2003 // Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Commissioner Jose Montemayor has rejected rate hikes requested by the Texas Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting Association, also known as the Joint Underwriting Association...
Malpractice Rates to Go Up for Some
Nov 20 2003 // Despite the passage in September of Proposition 12, which approved a legislative measure designed to lower malpractice insurance rates for doctors, at least two of the five major carriers providing that coverage in Texas...
