Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Alliance Calls WV Med Mal Reform Proposals “Good First Step”
Jan 21 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers praised the efforts of West Virginia’s House of Representatives in passing a medical malpractice insurance reform bill last week as a “step in the right direction,” and...
AAI Urges Congress to Adopt Med-Mal Reforms
Jan 17 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 fed, in part, by the growing number and size...
PA Governor, Hospitals Support President’s Call for Med Mal Reform
Jan 17 2003 // Pennsylvania’s Governor Schweiker and The Hospital & Healthsystem Association lined up behind the state’s doctors in supporting President Bush’s call for comprehensive reforms the nation’s...
New BCBS Survey Points to Impact of Med-Mal Crisis
Jan 16 2003 // The nation’s medical malpractice insurance crisis is threatening healthcare costs and access to care, according to a new survey of the 42 Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) companies. Blue Plans believe that because...
Doctors Pen Letter to Pres. Bush Regarding Med-Mal Crisis
Jan 16 2003 // Following remarks by President Bush, Thursday in Scranton, Pa., where he addressed the medical malpractice insurance crisis sweeping the nation, a letter was forwarded to the White House from a group of doctors. January...
W.Va. Surgeons’ Med Mal Strike May Ease as Polemics Continue
Jan 13 2003 // The work stoppage by a number of West Virginia surgeons protesting the high cost of medical malpractice insurance showed signs of easing, as several doctors indicated they would return to their posts. The decision comes at...
Fraud, Leaving its Prints on the Industry
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently. According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Med-Mal Mayhem
Jan 13 2003 // Will medical malpractice problems initiate the industry’s crisis for 2003 in the way that mold mania swept Texas and many other states in 2002, creating havoc in the homeowners insurance market? If you read the...
Montemayor Sends Biennial Report, Recommendations to Lawmakers
Jan 13 2003 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor recently submitted the Biennial Report, required under Section 32.022 of the Insurance Code, to Texas legislators suggesting needed changes in laws relating to insurance...
Fraud, Leaving its Prints on the Industry
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently. According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Book Says Med-Mal Legislation Discriminates
Jan 10 2003 // A new book on medical malpractice in Texas, by Fort Worth attorney Dan Barrett, claims Republicans are discriminating against the elderly and the poor in bills to be considered in the upcoming legislative...
Kentucky Commissioner Releases Med-Mal Proposal
Jan 8 2003 // Kentucky Department of Insurance (DOI) Commissioner Janie A. Miller announced a series of recommendations to address the medical malpractice insurance market in Kentucky. The recommendations were developed after months of...
Study by W. Va. Lawmakers: Caps Won’t Lower Med-Mal Coverage Rates
Jan 8 2003 // The West Virginia State Legislature has issued a report finding that imposing caps on damages in medical malpractice lawsuits will not reduce insurance rates for physicians, at least in the near future. Following the...
Capital BlueCross Against Proposed Pa. Health Insurance Tax
Jan 6 2003 // Capital BlueCross President and CEO James Mead issued a statement supporting Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Ed Rendell’s proposed health insurance reserve tax to help alleviate the state’s medical malpractice...
New Data Shows Worsening Med-Mal Crisis in Fla.
Jan 2 2003 // Floridians’ ability to obtain healthcare services is being disrupted statewide as hospitals are forced to close units or reduce services due to the medical liability insurance crisis, new information shows. The...
New Med-Mal Providers Approved for Pennsylvania
Dec 25 2002 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken announced that two new medical-malpractice insurance entities—Pennsylvania Health Providers Reciprocal Exchange of Harrisburg and United Central PA Reciprocal Risk...
Perry Calls Med-Mal Reform an Emergency Issue
Dec 20 2002 // During a visit to the Rio Grande Valley, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced plans to declare medical malpractice reform an emergency issue when the 78th Texas Legislature convenes in January. He has previously said that...
Pa. Supreme Court: Workers’ Comp Payments Recoupable from Malpractice Suit Proceeds
Dec 19 2002 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling stating that insurers can recoup workers’ compensation payments from malpractice suit proceeds made to injured employees who sue their lawyers for mishandling their...
Exec. Says Florida Hospitals Facing ‘Meltdown’
Dec 18 2002 // The medical liability insurance crisis in Florida will cause the state’s medical system to meltdown, unless a legislative fix is implemented soon, according to a hospital executive who is a member of the Coalition to...
Conventus Approved to Underwrite Med-Mal in New Jersey
Dec 10 2002 // Conventus Inter-Insurance Exchange, a Woodbridge, N.J.-based medical malpractice insurance company owned and governed by physicians, announced that the New Jersey Banking and Insurance Department has issued it a...
