Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
The Midwest’s Top 10 Newsmakers in 2004
Dec 29 2004 // What a long, strange trip it’s been. The year started with the two Chicago-area property/casualty insurance trade groups, the National Association of Independent Insurers and the Alliance of American Insurers,...
Battle Looms Over Ga. Medical Liability Reform Legislation, Its Effect on Premiums
Dec 29 2004 // Storm clouds are looming over medical liability reform legislation about to be introduced in the 2005 Georgia General Assembly which would make it harder for insurance companies to raise their rates and thus, supposedly...
Maryland Gov. Ehrlich’s Med-Mal Proposal Unveiled; Special Legislative Session Gets Underway Today
Dec 28 2004 // Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., on Dec. 22 provided Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael E. Busch a copy of the medical malpractice legislation that will be introduced during special...
Md. Gov. Ehrlich Calls Special Med-Mal Session But Details of Proposal Remain Unclear
Dec 22 2004 // Days after Gov. Robert Ehrlich announced he had reached an agreement with top legislative leaders to call a special session of the legislature to work on medical malpractice insurance reform, details of the agreement...
Chubb Unveils New Travel Accident Policy
Dec 21 2004 // To help business and leisure travelers manage life-threatening situations, the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has launched Signature Passport. This travel accident program offers some of the broadest coverage available...
The Midwest’s Top 10 Newsmakers
Dec 20 2004 // Here Are the Heartlanders Who Made Insurance Headlines in 2004 What a long, strange trip it’s been. The year started with the two Chicago-area property/casualty insurance trade groups merging to form the Property...
Looking Back on ’04: The Most Talked-About Stories in the Western Region
Dec 20 2004 // The year 2004 saw a little bit of everything across the Western Region. Workers’ comp, homeowners, med-mal, and even insurance fraud topped the list of the most talked about stories. We compiled these recaps based on...
Md. to Hold Special Legislative Session on Med-Mal
Dec 20 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich on Friday called for a special legislative session after Christmas to deal with the “most important issue in the state of Maryland” — medical malpractice insurance. The...
Panelists Discuss Med-Mal Crisis, TRIA at PLUS Conference
Dec 20 2004 // Tort reform is necessary to alleviate the national medical malpractice crisis and the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) will likely be extended, claimed panelists at the Professional Liability Underwriting...
ASHRAM Recognizes Popp as Distinguished Fellow
Dec 13 2004 // The American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) recently awarded Pamela L. Popp, vice president of the Healthcare Practice for McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P. (MHBT) in Dallas and Fort Worth, the designation...
Pa. Governor Signs Bill to Help Doctors Pay for Malpractice Insurance
Dec 13 2004 // Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell signed HB 1211 on Monday, the legislation that extends the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (Mcare) Fund abatement program for Pennsylvania health-care providers through...
Docs to Lawmakers: Fix Malpractice Crisis
Dec 13 2004 // Western Maryland doctors are demanding relief from the skyrocketing medical malpractice insurance rates that have driven some of them out of business. Frederick’s two senators and six local delegates listened to...
Spitzer Subpoenas Great American’s Records on Legal Malpractice Insurance
Dec 7 2004 // Cincinnati-based American Financial Group Inc. announced that its property/ casualty insurance subsidiary, the Great American Insurance Co., has received a subpoena from the New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s...
MED MAL COSTS HARM MD. ECONOMY:
Dec 6 2004 // While Gov. Robert Ehrlich, House Speaker Michael Busch and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller were struggling to come up with a legislative solution and ease the blow of a 33 percent increase in medical malpractice...
Arch Subpoena from N.Y. AG Concerns Lawyers Malpractice Insurance Program
Dec 6 2004 // Arch Capital Group Ltd. (Nasdaq:ACGL) announced that, on December 2, 2004, Arch Insurance Group received a subpoena from the New York State Attorney General. The subpoena requested certain information concerning its...
MASS. MALPRACTICE CLAIMS DECLINE:
Dec 6 2004 // The number of medical malpractice payments made by Massachusetts doctors peaked in 2001 and has begun to gradually decline, while the average size of those payments continues to soar, according to a new government report....
Task Force X-Rays Maryland Medical Malpractice System
Dec 6 2004 // Having low risk doctors subsidize premiums for higher risk doctors, establishing state courts exclusively for health matters, abolishing the state’s arbitration office, licensing life care planners, restricting...
Coalition Delivers Signatures for Wash. Med-Mal Initiative
Dec 3 2004 // Led by a father whose baby was badly injured during a botched delivery, a coalition of activists, labor leaders and lawyers has submitted about 200,000 signatures for an initiative to the Washington Legislature aimed at...
S&P Affirms APA Ratings
Nov 29 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Rating Services has revised its outlook on Michigan-based American Physicians Assurance Corp. (APA) to stable from negative. At the same time, Standard & Poor’s affirmed its...
Missouri Malpractice Claims Fall by 14%, But Premiums Rise
Nov 22 2004 // The number of medical malpractice claims filed and paid is declining in Missouri, yet physicians’ premiums are rising, according to a report from the state Insurance Department. New medical malpractice claims dropped...
