Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Reuters: How Court Lets Merck Hide Baldness Drug Propecia’s Risks
Sep 12 2019 // By the time Kelly Pfaff got home from driving her son to school that morning, it was too late. Her husband, John, was supposed to be taking their 4-year-old daughter to school. But the girl and the nanny were still at the...
Doctors, State Settle Iowa Woman’s Malpractice Claim for $2.5M
Sep 5 2019 // The state of Iowa and a group of doctors at University Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City will pay a Fairfield woman $2.5 million after she lost both legs to amputation and became paralyzed after what she claimed was a...
Kansas Takes Control of Medical Malpractice Insurer
Sep 3 2019 // The Kansas insurance commissioner will take supervisory control of a company that provides malpractice insurance to nearly 500 medical professionals in Missouri and Kansas. A Shawnee County judge last week placed...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Hires DellaCroce to Healthcare Practice in New Jersey
Aug 26 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a global leader in insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services, has hired Anthony DellaCroce to its team in New Jersey as an area vice president for the Healthcare Practice,...
Missing Drive Has Health Patient Info of Nevada’s Largest Healthcare Provider
Aug 14 2019 // The largest health care provider in northern Nevada says some of its patients’ private information was stored on a thumb drive that’s been missing since June 30. Renown Health said in a letter sent to patients...
Misdiagnosis a Leading Cause of Medical Malpractice Claims, Studies Show
Jul 30 2019 // Two recent research papers both point to the significance of diagnostic errors as a source of medical malpractice claims. A peer-reviewed paper published in Diagnosis on July 11 found that inaccurate or delayed diagnoses...
Costs, Underinsurance Bigger Challenge Than Uninsured in U.S. Health System
Jul 29 2019 // America’s much-maligned health care system is covering 9 out of 10 people, a fact that hasn’t stopped the 2020 presidential candidates from refighting battles about how to provide coverage, from Bernie...
Landscape Changed for Kansas Medical Malpractice Suits with Court Ruling
Jul 12 2019 // Brenda Lundeen went in for routine surgery to relieve heavy periods. What the Overland Park mom and grade schoolteacher got was a nightmare, as a medical mistake caused 194-degree water to pour through a hole in her uterus...
Jacoby Joins RCP in Dallas as Healthcare Practice Leader
Jul 12 2019 // Mike Jacoby has joined the Dallas-based team of Risk Consulting Partners (RCP) and will lead the firm’s rapidly growing healthcare practice. Jacoby brings to RCP more than 35 years of experience as an innovator and...
DNA Testing Service Left Client Health Records Open to Public
Jul 12 2019 // DNA-testing service Vitagene Inc. left thousands of client health reports exposed online for years, the kind of incident that privacy advocates have warned about as gene testing has become increasingly popular. More than...
Student Loans, Family Leave, Telemedicine, Standing Desks: Tailoring Benefits to Multigenerational Workforce
Jun 26 2019 // While the United States’ stable job market and regulatory environment have kept employee benefits offerings steady, some benefits such as student loan repayment, paternity leave, telecommuting, standing desks and...
Medical Errors in Massachusetts Cost Hundreds of Millions
Jun 12 2019 // A new survey has found that nearly 62,000 medical errors in Massachusetts in one year cost about $617 million for follow-up care. The Boston Globe reports that the survey released Monday by the Betsy Lehman Center for...
Risk Strategies Adds Humphreys to National Health Care Practice in Philadelphia
Jun 12 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has added Ward Humphreys as senior vice president to the reinsurance team of its National Health Care Practice. His hiring is part...
How the Workers’ Compensation Industry Is Embracing Telemedicine
Jun 10 2019 // The use of telemedicine may be in its nascent stages within the workers’ compensation system, but the starting line has definitely been crossed with employers and workers’ comp insurers embracing the ability to...
ISMIE Mutual OK’d Offer Medical Professional Liability Coverage in Texas
Jun 7 2019 // Medical professional liability insurer, ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., has been approved as an admitted carrier in Texas. The company said Texas regulators have approved its rate and forms filing, so ISMIE is now able to...
Fitch Downgrades Ratings of Alabama-Based ProAssurance’s HoldCo; Affirms IFS Ratings
Jun 6 2019 // Fitch Ratings has affirmed the Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) ratings of Birmingham, Ala.-based ProAssurance Corporation’s (PRA) subsidiaries at ‘A’ and downgraded its senior unsecured debt to...
CVS to Expand Medical Services to 1,500 Stores
Jun 5 2019 // CVS Health Corp. said it would offer expanded health services such as nutrition counseling and blood pressure screenings in 1,500 stores by the end of 2021, following through on plans announced during the pharmacy...
Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance Claims Grow in Severity, Complexity, Cost
May 31 2019 // The number of legal malpractice claims resulting in larger multimillion dollar payouts – as well as the dollar amounts involved – has surged in the past year, with at least two settlements exceeding $250...
Minnesota Supreme Court Malpractice Ruling Has Doctors Concerned
May 29 2019 // A recent ruling from the Minnesota Supreme Court saying doctors can be sued for malpractice even if they’re not directly treating a patient is causing angst in the state’s medical and legal communities. The...
Sorry! Laws Protecting Doctors Who Apologize Don’t Lessen Litigation
May 6 2019 // Laws intended to reduce malpractice litigation by protecting doctors who want to apologize don’t work, according to a new Vanderbilt analysis of proprietary insurance data. It turns out people sue for money and an...
