Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Cutting doctors’ hours may not reduce medical errors, studies find
Sep 24 2007 // New 80-hour limit for medical residents may not be the best way to address doctor fatigue Cutting the grueling work hours of doctors-in-training had little effect on reducing patient deaths, according to two large...
La. Supreme Court: Lack of hospital evacuation plan not malpractice
Sep 24 2007 // The case concerned a “civil action against a private hospital for survival and wrongful death damages.” The Louisiana Supreme Court on Sept. 5 ruled that allegations that hospitals’ lack of evacuation...
Texas: 32 workers’ comp carriers high performing
Sep 24 2007 // In its initial assessment of workers’ compensation carriers and providers, the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation found that 32 out of 147 insurance carriers reviewed were high...
Cutting doctors’ hours may not reduce medical errors, studies find
Sep 24 2007 // Cutting the grueling work hours of doctors-in-training had little effect on reducing patient deaths, according to two large studies. Death rates dropped in one group of patients in veterans’ hospitals but not in...
Texas Medical Liability Insurer to Lower Rates Again
Sep 19 2007 // Medical professional liability insurer Medical Protective announced it will reduce its average rates for Texas physicians by another 7.3 percent effective Jan. 1, 2008. The company said the reduction will be the fifth in...
Dirigo Will Save Maine Health System $33 Million, State Estimates
Sep 19 2007 // The state’s Dirigo Health program will save the Maine health care system $32.8 million in its third year of operation, the Maine superintendent of insurance has ruled. In a 23-page report, Bureau of Insurance Acting...
Md. Insurer Says It No Longer Needs Malpractice Premium Subsidy
Sep 19 2007 // Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer plans to leave a state premium subsidy program and return some of the money it has received, saying it no longer needs the subsidy to stabilize premiums for doctors...
Texas Assesses Performance of Comp Carriers, Providers
Sep 17 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) announced the results of the initial review of workers’ compensation insurance carriers and health care providers as part of the...
La. Court: Lack of Hospital Evacuation Plan not Malpractice
Sep 12 2007 // The Louisiana Supreme Court on Sept. 5 ruled that allegations that hospitals’ lack of evacuation plans led to injuries or deaths during Hurricane Katrina are not medical malpractice claims. Instead, such cases should...
OneBeacon Pro, Rockwood Step into E&S Podiatrist Malpractice Market
Sep 12 2007 // OneBeacon Professional Partners will begin offering medical malpractice coverage tailored for podiatric physicians. The product will be offered on an excess and surplus basis, with limits available up to $1 million/$3...
Texas Medical Liability Carrier Announces Rate Cut
Sep 7 2007 // Medical liability insurer Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT) recently approved a 6.5 percent rate reduction for all medical specialties and classes effective Jan. 1, 2008, the third straight rate reduction/dividend for...
Cutting Doctors’ Hours May Not Reduce Medical Errors, Studies Find
Sep 6 2007 // Cutting the grueling work hours of doctors-in-training had little effect on reducing patient deaths, according to two large studies. Death rates dropped in one group of patients in veterans’ hospitals but not in...
Ala. Supreme Court Reverses $3.85 Million Malpractice Verdict
Sep 5 2007 // The Alabama Supreme Court pointed to jury instruction error in reversing a $3.85 million award for a Jackson couple in a medical malpractice suit over the death of their 6-year-old son. The ruling allows a retrial in...
Fla. Woman Wins $10 Million Malpractice Verdict
Sep 4 2007 // A Florida jury granted a woman a $10.3 million verdict last week, agreeing that an emergency room doctor’s negligence caused her husband’s premature death. Nadine Raphael said Dr. James Shecter did not...
N.Y. Names Task Force to Study Rising Medical Malpractice Costs
Aug 31 2007 // New York Insurance Superintendent Eric R. Dinallo and Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D. announced today the members of the Medical Malpractice Liability Task Force, charged by Governor Eliot Spitzer with...
Pa. Medical Malpractice Insurer Files for 11% Rate Cut
Aug 27 2007 // Medical malpractice insurer PMSLIC Insurance Co. has filed for an overall 11 percent rate reduction in Pennsylvania. If approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance, the revised rates will go into effect Jan. 1,...
Okla. Physicians Liability Insurer Overcomes $143M Deficit
Aug 27 2007 // Oklahoma-based Physicians Liability Insurance Company (PLICO) announced that in just over two years it has overcome a $143 million surplus deficit. Carl Hook, M.D., president and CEO of PLICO, said the company met the goal...
Candidate Giuliani Says He Misspoke About Ground Zero Health Risk
Aug 13 2007 // Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he misspoke when he said he spent as much time, if not more, at ground zero exposed to the same health risks as workers combing the site after the Sept. 11...
YouTube Video Appears to Show W. Va. Medical Malpractice Evidence
Aug 10 2007 // HCA Inc. had nothing to do with the video posted on the Internet showing sealed evidence from several of the 122 medical malpractice cases against a former West Virginia osteopathic physician, lawyers have told a judge. A...
Wash. Medical Malpractice Rules Outline Reporting Requirements
Aug 7 2007 // Regulations designed to provide guidance to insurers, providers, attorneys and claimants on complying with Washington’s new Health Care Liability Reform Law have been implemented, according to the Office of the...
