Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Black Medical Worker Awarded $3 Million in Maine Racial Discrimination Case
Nov 7 2022 // A federal jury has awarded $3 million to a former Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center worker who said racial discrimination led to his firing. Attorneys for David Ako-Annan, who is Black, said the damages...
178 Medical Providers Suspended from California’s Workers’ Comp System
Sep 30 2022 // The California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Workers’ Compensation and DIR’s Anti-Fraud Unit suspended 178 medical providers during the first eight months of 2022. Providers are...
New York Jury Awards Ex-NFL Player Cox $28.5M in Medical Malpractice Case
Sep 27 2022 // A former NFL player has been was awarded $28.5 million by a Manhattan jury ruling in his favor in a medical malpractice lawsuit over surgery that failed to fix his injured ankle, according to the player’s...
Delaware Law Cut Workers’ Compensation Medical Claim Costs by 33%: WCRI
Sep 16 2022 // A Delaware workers’ compensation law passed in 2014 has succeeded in lowering workers’ compensation medical claim costs, new research shows. The report from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI)...
Report Pinpoints Top Causes of Malpractice Claims Involving Nurses
Sep 13 2022 // For 20 years, nursing has been rated as the most trusted profession in national Gallup polls. Even so, nurses make mistakes from time to time. A new report by professional liability insurer Coverys offers insight on the...
Maryland High Court Revives Dental Malpractice Claim Over Tossed Testimony
Aug 31 2022 // A county judge improperly took sides when he threw out expert testimony and dismissed a medical malpractice case, Maryland’s high court ruled last week. The Maryland Court of Appeals revived a lawsuit filed by a...
Pennsylvania Loosens Rules on Where Medical Malpractice Cases Can Be Filed
Aug 29 2022 // Pennsylvania’s highest court lastThursday reversed its own two-decade-old rule that required medical malpractice cases to be filed in the county where the alleged harm occurred, a win for civil plaintiffs and the...
Potential Class-Action Suit Says Washington Healthcare Provider Failed to Provide Interpreters
Jul 28 2022 // Providence St. Joseph Health, the largest healthcare system in Washington state, failed to provide in-person American Sign Language interpreters for deaf patients, leaving them at the mercy of virtual interpreters whose...
New Hampshire Enacts Safety Laws to Protect Health Care Workers
Jul 25 2022 // Health care facilities in New Hampshire will have to implement and maintain workplace violence prevention programs under a new law. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed seven bills into law this week, including a Senate...
Court Says Health Care Workers Suing Maine Governor Must Reveal Identities
Jul 12 2022 // Nine health care workers who sued Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate have until Money to reveal their identities. The workers have so far remained anonymous, but on Thursday,...
Supreme Court Declines to Hear New York Vaccine Mandate for Health Workers
Jul 1 2022 // The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons. The court’s action follows...
Miss. Supreme Court Counts Unproven Comp Benefits in Legal Malpractice Claim
Jun 21 2022 // The question for the Mississippi Supreme Court was whether the amount of damages due an injured employee for her attorney’s negligence should include the workers’ compensation benefits she missed out on. The...
Medical Professional Liability Insurance Market Improves but Still Unprofitable
Jun 20 2022 // The U.S. medical professional liability insurance (MPLI) market saw an improvement in financial performance in 2021 but its combined ratio remained an unprofitable 108 and a return to profitability is unlikely, said Fitch...
South Dakota Health Care System Says Data Breach Affected 700
Jun 16 2022 // The private information of hundreds of patients at a Sioux Falls-based health care system have been compromised, according to the provider. Avera Health says a data breach allowed someone to obtain the personal information...
Medical Professional Liability Insurance Market Improves but Still Unprofitable
Jun 14 2022 // The U.S. medical professional liability insurance (MPLI) market saw an improvement in financial performance in 2021 but its combined ratio remained an unprofitable 108 and a return to profitability is unlikely, said Fitch...
Legal Malpractice Claims Severity Keeps Rising
Jun 6 2022 // Almost all insurers that participated in a recent survey said they have been involved with a lawyers professional liability insurance (LPLI) claim of more than $50 million in the last two years — and at least one...
Costlier Errors: Legal Malpractice Claims Severity Keeps Rising
May 23 2022 // Almost all insurers that participated in a recent survey said they have been involved with a lawyers professional liability insurance (LPLI) claim of more than $50 million in the last two years – and at least one paid a...
California Lawmakers Raise Awards for Malpractice Lawsuits
May 13 2022 // The California Legislature has agreed to increase how much money people can win in medical malpractice lawsuits, resolving one of the thorniest disputes in state politics by raising a cap on damages for the first time in...
Nursing Malpractice Coverage Brings Peace of Mind
May 2 2022 // Health care is a highly complex and ever-changing environment that can lend itself to high-risk, and life-threating, situations. Healthcare professionals, including nursing professionals, can make mistakes so having the...
Malpractice Insurance Premiums Increased 22%, Despite Fewer Claims
May 2 2022 // The number of malpractice claims filed against hospitals and physicians dropped 14% in 2020, even as premiums rose 22% on average, according to the most recent report by the American Society for Health Care Risk Management...
