Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Medical Malpractice
Feb 25 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar has available a medical malpractice program. Appointment only—inquire. Classes include physicians and surgeons, anesthesiologists, dentists, podiatrists, medical clinics, labs, clinical...
Penn Med Mal Reform Bill Stalls in House
Feb 14 2002 // Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives voted by a 148-51 margin to approve additional provisions to the Senate’s version of the medical malpractice reform bill, delaying passage of any measure until a...
Penn. Med Mal Reform Debate Heats Up
Jan 30 2002 // The controversy surrounding Pennsylvania’s ongoing medical malpractice crisis increased on Tuesday as some 700 physicians, healthcare professionals and patients demonstrated in favor of tort reform at the State...
Penn. Lawmakers to Push Med Mal Reform
Jan 28 2002 // Tort reforms affecting Pennsylvania medical malpractice recoveries will apparently be receiving top priority from some of the State’s legislators, as they seek solutions to the current crisis in physicians’ and...
Med-Mal Cover Available in Ark.
Jan 28 2002 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens recently assured Arkansas doctors that medical malpractice insurance is still available in the state. Pickens made the announcement in response to the decision by St. Paul...
Penn. Doctors, Patients Gather to Urge Med Mal Reform
Jan 22 2002 // Pennsylvania’s ongoing medical liability insurance crisis has generated a rare alliance between the State’s doctors, health care professionals and their patients, culminating in a gathering in Harrisburg,...
Penn. Doctors Given Delay for Med Mal Premium Payments
Jan 11 2002 // Pennsylvania’s Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken joined Governor Mark Schweiker in seeking to postpone the due date for medical malpractice surcharge premium payments by the State’s physicians into the Medical...
CPA Advantage™ Professional Liability Program, Accountingmalpractice.com Form Alliance
Jan 9 2002 // The CPA Advantage ™ Professional Liability Insurance program (managed nationally by the Herbert H. Landy Insurance Agency of Needham, Mass. and underwritten by the Chicago Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Fireman’s...
IRMI Supports Penn. Lawyers; Insurers to Blame for Malpractice Cost Rise
Jan 3 2002 // The International Risk Management Institute (IRMI) has issued a statement supporting the contentions of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association(PaTLA) that the insurance industry’s own business practices are...
NYSID Announces Changes in No-fault Arbitration
Jan 3 2002 // New York State Insurance Superintendent Gregory V. Serio announced a major reform package for the State’s automobile no-fault insurance arbitration program, designed to expedite settlement of insurance disputes,...
Penn. Gov. Orders Malpractice Relief
Dec 31 2001 // Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker backed up his call for the reform of the state’s medical malpractice insurance system (See IJ Website, Dec.27) with an executive order to delay collection of the surcharge for the...
Governor Calls For Malpractice Reforms in Penna.
Dec 27 2001 // Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker called on the General Assembly to adopt strong reforms to curb the skyrocketing costs of medical-malpractice insurance and to address the diminishing availability of insurance. He also...
W.R. Berkley to Enter Excess Medical Malpractice Market
Dec 19 2001 // Connecticut-based W.R. Berkley Corp. announced it will enter the excess medical malpractice market with the formation of Berkley Medical Excess Underwriters, LLC., based in St. Louis, Missouri, which will underwrite on...
St. Paul Leaves Medical Malpractice Business
Dec 13 2001 // The St. Paul Companies said it would move out of its money-losing medical malpractice business and would quit or trim some other business lines, cutting an unspecified number of jobs and taking pretax charges of $900...
W.Va. Senate Considers Bill to Ban ‘Bad Faith’ Malpractice Suits Against Insurers
Dec 3 2001 // The West Virginia Senate is considering legislation, tabled by the Judiciary Committee as part of a tort reform bill, to ban claims by third parties against medical malpractice insurers for delays or settlement refusals...
External Review of Medical Claims by P/C Insurers Could Raise Premiums
Oct 16 2001 // Requiring property/casualty insurers to have medical treatment claims reviewed by third party examiners is unnecessary, counterproductive and could raise the cost of insurance for Iowa consumers, according to the...
Free Professional Liability Seminar for Healthcare Industry Schedule
Sep 11 2001 // No challenge is more intriguing to Colorado residents than the “Fourteeners”–a group of 55 mountains peaks all in Colorado and all higher than 14,000 feet above sea level. A team from Baetis Inc.,...
Fear of the Unknown–The Mold Issue Raises More Questions Than Answers (Part II) By Catherine Tapia
Sep 10 2001 // By Catherine Tapia This is the second installation of a two-part series dealing with the rising issue of toxic mold claims, which continues its exploration of specific mold-related lawsuits in California: determining...
Free Professional Liability Seminar for Healthcare Industry Scheduled
Sep 10 2001 // Richard L. Polizzi, president of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc., is sponsoring a free seminar for “Professional Liability for the Healthcare Industry.” Agents can earn three continuing...
Fear of the Unknown-The Mold Issue Raises More Questions Than Answers
Sep 10 2001 // Editor’s Note: This is the second installation of a two-part series dealing with the rising issue of toxic mold claims. See IJ, Aug. 27, 2001, for Part I. Part II Determining causation A major aspect of the ongoing...
