Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ebola Monitoring in Texas Expires for Some
Oct 21 2014 // About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in Dallas who had the disease, Texas health officials said. Officials said 43 of 48...
RLI Adds New Healthcare Liability Division
Oct 21 2014 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Corp. has launched a new healthcare liability division, RLI Healthcare, and added Scott Ducey to lead the operation as vice president. RLI will provide liability insurance coverage for targeted risks...
Update on Ebola in U.S.: New CDC Protocols, Rapid Response Team, Czar
Oct 21 2014 // The United States issued stringent new protocols on Monday for health workers treating Ebola victims, directing medical teams to wear protective gear that leaves no skin or hair exposed to prevent medical workers from...
Pennsylvania Agrees to $200M Settlement in Medical Malpractice Fund Case
Oct 17 2014 // Health care providers will be getting $200 million from the state of Pennsylvania in a settlement announced Thursday over litigation about a massive fund set up to help doctors pay malpractice insurance premiums. Gov. Tom...
Second Healthcare Worker Tests Positive for Ebola at Texas Hospital
Oct 15 2014 // A second healthcare worker in Texas tested positive for Ebola after caring for a patient with the deadly viral illness, adding to concern that infection controls at U.S. hospitals aren’t strong enough. The worker at...
Texas Healthcare Worker Tests Positive for Ebola
Oct 13 2014 // A Texas healthcare worker has tested positive for Ebola even though she wore full protective gear while caring for a hospitalized patient who later died from the virus, health officials said. If the preliminary diagnosis...
Are States, Cities Equipped to Handle Ebola Emergencies?
Oct 12 2014 // The missteps in Dallas’s handling of the first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States have revealed an uncomfortable reality: state and city plans for handling the deadly virus are based on generic recommendations...
Atwell Joins The Buckner Co.’s Healthcare Practice in Utah
Oct 8 2014 // Salt Lake City, Utah-based The Buckner Co. has named Robert F. Atwell as the firm’s healthcare practice leader. Atwell’s primary focus will be on serving the region’s healthcare community. Atwell has 40...
N.Y. Doctor Found Guilty in Massive No-Fault Insurance Fraud Scheme
Oct 7 2014 // Authorities announced that a Brooklyn, New York-based doctor has been found guilty in a no-fault insurance fraud scheme following a two-week jury trial. According to a statement Monday from Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney...
Success of Ebola Lawsuits in Texas Would Have Long Odds
Oct 7 2014 // Potential suits against the Dallas, Texas, hospital that sent home a patient later diagnosed with Ebola face long odds in the face of state medical malpractice laws. Texas tort-reform measures have made it one of the...
ProAssurance, Pro-Praxis Introduce Excess Package for Complex Healthcare Risks
Sep 30 2014 // ProAssurance Corp. of Birmingham, Ala., has launched a new suite of excess insurance coverages, ProAssurance Complex Medicine, or ProCxM, for large healthcare facilities and organizations. This new package of coverages and...
Healthcare Firms at Risk; Hackers Value Medical Records Over Credit Data
Sep 26 2014 // Your medical information is worth 10 times more than your credit card number on the black market. Last month, the FBI warned healthcare providers to guard against cyber attacks after one of the largest U.S. hospital...
Accountants to Face Malpractice Claims in Alabama’s Colonial Bancorp Failure
Sep 11 2014 // Accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Crowe Horwath must face a lawsuit accusing them of professional malpractice and breach of contract for not catching a fraud that led to the 2009 collapse of Colonial Bank, a...
Insurance Noodle Launches Integrated Facility for Allied Health Services
Sep 3 2014 // Insurance Noodle has launched an integrated facility for allied health services across the United States, bringing together several leading markets via a single online access point. By accessing Insurance Noodle’s...
NORCAL Mutual Begins Offering Med Mal Coverage in Del., Penn.
Aug 29 2014 // NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, a medical professional liability insurance carrier domiciled in San Francisco, said it is now offering its medical professional liability coverage to healthcare professionals in Delaware...
Alabama Jury Awards $4 Million in Emergency Room Doctor Malpractice Case
Aug 22 2014 // A Walker County, Alabama jury has awarded a Carbon Hill woman millions of dollars in a medical malpractice suit against a doctor who mistook symptoms that led to her husband’s heart attack for a stomach...
Number of Medical Errors Reported by Mass. Hospitals Spiked in 2013
Aug 15 2014 // The number of medical errors reported by Massachusetts acute-care hospitals has jumped 70 percent since the state expanded the type of incidents hospitals are required to report. Hospitals reported 753 serious medical...
The Promise of Telemedicine to Pare Health Costs
Aug 12 2014 // Telemedicine could potentially deliver more than $6 billion a year in health care savings to U.S. companies, but only if the technology is widely-adopted. According to analysis by global professional services company...
Coverys to Acquire ELM Exchange in Maryland
Aug 11 2014 // Coverys, a Boston-based medical professional liability insurer, announced it has finalized an agreement to acquire ELM Exchange Inc. in Rockville, Maryland. ELM provides customized online educational programs that are...
Alabama Judge Dismisses Circumcision Malpractice Case
Aug 11 2014 // An Alabama law passed to rein in health care costs nearly three decades ago was at the heart of a judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit over what a man claims was a botched circumcision. Circuit Judge Jim Hughey III...
