Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
House Committee Holds Hearing on Need for Medical Liability Reform Legislation
Mar 3 2003 // The House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on Health held a hearing last week to assess the need for medical liability reform legislation, H.R. 5. The full House Judiciary Committee plans to hold a hearing on the same...
CAPP Backs Federal Effort to Control Medical Liability Crisis
Mar 3 2003 // As the nation continues to face a medical malpractice crisis, the U.S. House of Representatives has sought the experience of Californians Allied for Patient Protection (CAPP). CAPP is a broad-based coalition dedicated to...
PA Governor Issues Statement Promising $220 Million Med Mal Premium Abatement Plan
Mar 3 2003 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell released a statement on Friday promising short-term economic relief for physicians struggling to pay medical malpractice premiums. The text is as follows: “Two months ago, I...
The Light at the End of the Tunnel for Medical Malpractice’
Feb 24 2003 // Skyrocketing insurance premiums, a dearth of companies writing medical malpractice insurance and doctors suspending their practices in protest are precipitating increased regulatory involvement and tort reform in the...
California, Here We Come
Feb 24 2003 // Earthquakes. Mudslides. Electricity and water shortages. The Los Angeles Clippers. California has its share of problems, no doubt. But there’s at least one thing going right in the Golden State. In 1975, California...
Med Mal Fever: When Doctors Walk Out, Politicians Notice
Feb 24 2003 // They’re baaack. High-flying medical malpractice liability claims losses, that is. The availability crisis of the 1970s and the affordability crisis of the 1980s may be nothing compared to the crisis insurers and...
The Light at the End of the Tunnel for Medical Malpractice’
Feb 24 2003 // Skyrocketing insurance premiums, a dearth of companies writing medical malpractice insurance and doctors suspending their practices in protest are precipitating increased regulatory involvement and tort reform in the...
AAI Reports on WSJ Online/Harris Med-Mal Poll
Feb 20 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AAI) responded to the findings of a recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Healthcare Poll on medical malpractice insurance. The poll showed that a strong majority of...
Fla. Business Associations Demand a Fix for Medical Liability Problems
Feb 20 2003 // Florida’s top business associations demanded that state legislators fix the broken medical liability system, saying it is one of the key reasons healthcare costs are skyrocketing for employers and workers. According...
APCapital Reports Fewer Losses, Sees 2003 Profits
Feb 14 2003 // American Physicians Capital Inc. reported a net operating loss of $1.1 million, or 12 cents per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2002, compared to a net operating loss of $14.5 million, or $1.38 per diluted share,...
Senate Holds Hearing for Medical Litigation
Feb 13 2003 // The Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a joint hearing this week on “Patient Access Crisis: The Role of Medical Litigation.” Judiciary Chairman Orrin...
Senate Dems Move to Strip Med Mal Antitrust Exemption
Feb 13 2003 // Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and eight other Senate Democrats have introduced a bill that would strip medical liability insurers of their immunity to anti-trust laws. The Medical Malpractice Act of 2003 (S. 352) would amend...
Tenn. Commissioner Briefs Lawmakers on Reciprocals in Receivership
Feb 11 2003 // Tennessee Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance Paula A. Flowers briefed the state’s House of Representatives on the department’s placement of three malpractice insurance reciprocals into...
PA Hospitals Applaud Medical Liability Insurance Reform Bill
Feb 11 2003 // The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) praised the efforts of Congressmen Jim Greenwood (R-Erwinna) and John Murtha (D-Johnstown) for reintroducing the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low Cost,...
AAI URGES CONGRESS TO ADOPT MED-MAL REFORMS
Feb 10 2003 // Rodger Lawson, president of the Alliance of American Insurers, has urged Congress to enact meaningful medical malpractice liability reforms, in order to avert a growing crisis. Lawson called the medical malpractice reform...
Fla. Coalition Praises Med Mal Task Force Report
Feb 5 2003 // The Coalition to Heal Healthcare in Florida, which includes Florida’s hospitals, doctors and major business groups, applauded the final report of a task force studying the state’s medical liability crisis,...
Washington Physicians Urge Legislators for Medical Liability Reform
Feb 4 2003 // Nearly 300 physicians from across Washington state met in Olympia to urge legislators to pass medical liability reform recently. Washington physicians, reeling from rapidly increasing medical malpractice premiums, are...
Malpractice Insurers Placed Under Supervision in Tenn.
Feb 3 2003 // Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Paula A. Flowers announced that three malpractice insurers—Doctors Insurance Reciprocal RRG, American National Lawyers Insurance Reciprocal RRG and the Reciprocal Alliance RRG—were...
Fitch Reports It Is Too Early to Determine Impact of Doctor Walkouts
Jan 30 2003 // Recent and planned walkouts by surgeons protesting escalating malpractice insurance costs is gaining attention, however Fitch Ratings reports it is too early to tell what, if any, impact these walkouts may have on...
Western PA Hospital Council Comments on President’s Med Mal Reform Proposals
Jan 30 2003 // The Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania (HCWP) applauded the remarks made by President Bush in his State of the Union address Tuesday night on medical malpractice reform, noting that it had pushed the issue into the...
