Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Hospital: Doc Gave Excessive Pain Meds to Near-Death Patients, Suit Filed
Jan 18 2019 // An intensive care doctor ordered “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be...
Woodruff Sawyer in California Names Mckenna National Healthcare Practice Leader
Jan 17 2019 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff Sawyer has named Frank Mckenna senior vice president and national healthcare practice leader. Mckenna will be responsible for expanding and growing the current Healthcare...
Kentucky High Court Finds Medical Malpractice Review Panels Unconstitutional
Jan 16 2019 // The Kentucky Supreme Court struck down last month Kentucky’s Medical Review Panels Act, which was enacted by the General Assembly in 2017, returning the process of reviewing medical malpractice claims back to the...
Drug Advertising Drives $30 Billion Medical Industry Marketing Machine
Jan 11 2019 // Ads for prescription drugs appeared 5 million times in just one year, capping a recent surge in U.S. medical marketing, a new analysis found. The advertisements for various medicines showed up on TV, newspapers, online...
Seeman Holtz P&C Acquires Houston’s Premier Medical Practice Group
Jan 8 2019 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty LLC has acquired Professional Medical Insurance Services (PMIS), headquartered in Houston, with seven other offices across the country. This PMIS medical and malpractice group will...
Medical Professional Liability Insurers Post Underwriting Loss Again
Nov 19 2018 // U.S. medical professional liability insurers reported an underwriting loss again last year, according to Fitch Ratings in a new report that says the results are drawing more scrutiny around reserves that are shrinking. For...
New York Clinic Owner, Doctor, Attorney Arrested for Insurance Fraud Scheme
Nov 16 2018 // The owner, doctor and attorney involved with a medical clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y., have been charged for their alleged participation in a $1 million auto insurance fraud scheme. New York State Attorney General Barbara D....
ISMIE Mutual Insurance Partners with Osteopathic Associations on MPL Program
Nov 13 2018 // Chicago-based ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., has partnered with the Indiana Osteopathic Association (IOA) and the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association (POMA) on a medical professional liability insurance...
Trump Signs Legislation to Protect Sports Medical Professionals When Traveling Across State Lines
Nov 5 2018 // President Donald Trump has signed legislation that will protect sports medicine professionals who travel with sports teams by ensuring that their license and liability insurance remains in effect even when they cross state...
Medical Profession Liability Insurer ISMIE Mutual Expanding Into Ohio
Nov 2 2018 // ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., a medical professional liability insurance provider, is expanding into Ohio after state regulators there granted the company admitted status. ISMIE said it is now able to offer Ohio physicians,...
Illinois’ Cook County Board OKs $4M Medical Malpractice Settlement
Oct 19 2018 // Cook County’s board of commissioners have voted for a nearly $4 million settlement of a malpractice lawsuit filed after an alleged botched heart surgery at Chicago’s Stroger Hospital. Lawyers for Jaime Flores...
Trump Signs Bill Ensuring Sports Medical Malpractice Insurance Travels Across State Lines
Oct 10 2018 // President Donald Trump has signed legislation that will protect sports medicine professionals who travel with sports teams by ensuring that their license and liability insurance remains in effect even when they cross state...
Doctor’s Alleged Fraud Scheme Throws Medical Claims Review Process into Doubt
Oct 2 2018 // For years, Spyros Panos seemed like a successful orthopedic surgeon, seeing dozens of patients a day and bringing in millions of dollars in fees for his suburban New York medical group. In fact, he was inflating charges...
California Commissioner Sues Biopharma Giant AbbVie Alleging Illegal Kickbacks in Promoting HUMIRA
Sep 18 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Tuesday filed an insurance-fraud complaint in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of the state against AbbVie Inc. alleging the company gave illegal kickbacks to...
New Mexico Couple Wins $74M for Baby’s Brain Damage in Delivery
Sep 17 2018 // A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage. The jury in late August ruled that a women’s health clinic in Hobbs, New Mexico,...
Mass. SJC Says Hospital Does Not Have Duty of Care in Former Patient’s Stabbing Suit
Sep 3 2018 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that Steward Carney Hospital does not have a duty of care after a patient released from an involuntary psychiatric commitment fatally stabbed his neighbor. The court found...
Report: Missouri Medical Professional Liability Insurers Saw Slight Profit in 2017
Sep 3 2018 // In 2017, poor underwriting results for medical professional liability insurers in Missouri were partially offset by higher investment returns, and insurers barely eked out a profit, earning a 0.2 percent return on net...
Illinois Governor Sends Workers’ Comp Bill Back to Lawmakers
Aug 30 2018 // Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed, with recommended changes, a workers’ compensation measure that would have allowed for interest to be paid on delayed payment in disputes between insurers and medical service...
New Mexico Couple Wins $74M for Baby’s Brain Damage in Delivery
Aug 29 2018 // A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage. KOB-TV in Albuquerque reported the jury this month ruled that a women’s health clinic in...
Investors Betting on Workplace Medical Clinics to Help Employers Contain Costs
Aug 23 2018 // A group of investors is putting up $165 million to fuel an expansion of Paladina Health, bringing a recent surge of private funds flowing into companies that run primary-care clinics to more than a half-billion...
