Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ACE Launches Enhanced Clinical Trials Liability Cover for UK Companies
Mar 23 2015 // ACE Group has launched an enhanced clinical trials liability proposition for UK companies, which provides life science companies with specialist insurance for clinical trials programs conducted anywhere in the world. With...
Retired Head of CAP in California Reflects on Medical Malpractice
Mar 18 2015 // He’s only a few weeks into official retirement, but James L. Weidner is already looking back fondly at the last 20 years as chief executive officer of Cooperative of American Physicians. “It was just an...
Missouri Senate Backs Caps on Medical Malpractice Jury Awards
Mar 11 2015 // The Missouri Senate has moved forward a measure that would reinstate limits on noneconomic awards in medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors or hospitals. The Senate gave initial approval Tuesday to limits on...
Consumer Credit Agencies Agree to Address Errors, Medical Debt
Mar 10 2015 // Buying homes, getting jobs and borrowing money will be easier after an agreement by the three biggest U.S. consumer credit reporting services with New York. “This is huge,” Chi Chi Wu, an attorney at...
Report Shows More Errors, Fewer Deaths in Minnesota Hospitals
Mar 9 2015 // An annual report on patient safety shows more errors but fewer deaths in Minnesota hospitals in the past year. The Department of Health found 277 so-called “adverse events” in categories that have long been...
Medical Malpractice Award Caps Endorsed by Missouri House
Mar 6 2015 // The Missouri House has given initial approval to a bill to reinstate limits on how much juries can award in noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases against health care providers. Supporters said the limits,...
How Group Health Claims-Shifting Affects Workers’ Compensation: WCRI
Mar 5 2015 // Workers’ compensation insurers should expect more cost shifting from group health plans as a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) takes hold, according to new research from the Workers Compensation Research...
Report: Errors Increase in Minnesota Hospitals but Deaths Decrease
Feb 26 2015 // An annual report on patient safety shows more errors but fewer deaths in Minnesota hospitals in the past year. The Department of Health found 277 so-called “adverse events” in categories long been tracked, such...
Emerging Markets Private Health Premiums to Double: Swiss Re Report
Feb 25 2015 // In a new sigma report, the first for 2015 Swiss Re concludes that “demand and expectations for better healthcare services are rising in the emerging markets,” and that as a result it expects “premiums for...
Celona to Head Medical Professional at Liberty International Underwriters
Feb 12 2015 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has named Valoree Celona to its recently-created position of senior vice president of Medical Professional Liability Insurance. Based in...
Texas Bill Would Modify ‘Claimant’ Definition in Medical Liability Cases
Feb 9 2015 // Texas Rep. Chris Turner, House District 101- Grand Prairie, has filed a measure that would clarify the definition of “claimant” in respect to a healthcare liability claim. HB 956 was crafted in response to a...
Lawyers Scarce for Medical Malpractice Victims in South Dakota
Feb 4 2015 // Jennifer Eastman already was in anguish when she went to the hospital on Jan. 4, 2013, to have the dead fetus she was carrying removed from her uterus. The procedure and the loss of a child were bad enough. But it got...
Texas Bill Would Modify ‘Claimant’ Definition in Medical Liability Cases
Jan 28 2015 // Texas state Rep. Chris Turner, House District 101- Grand Prairie, has filed a measure that would clarify the definition of “claimant” in respect to a health care liability claim. HB 956 stems from the Texas...
Court Rejects Royal Caribbean’s Appeal of Medical Malpractice Ruling
Jan 28 2015 // A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider a decision that opens the door for cruise ship passengers to sue for medical malpractice. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a bid by Royal Caribbean Cruise...
Washington Church, Law Firm Settle Legal Malpractice Claim
Jan 26 2015 // The Catholic Diocese of Spokane has settled a malpractice case it filed against the law firm that handled its bankruptcy over priest sex abuse claims. The church and the Paine Hamblen law firm settled Friday, but the terms...
Did New Mexico Court Open ‘Pandora’s Bong’ With Nod to Pot for Worker?
Jan 22 2015 // A can of worms has been opened, the horse is out of the barn and the industry is gazing into Pandora’s Box. There is no shortage of idioms for workers’ compensation experts who are concerned over a decision...
Republican Lawmakers in Missouri Considering Lawsuit Caps Again
Jan 20 2015 // Nearly a decade after Missouri last limited some civil lawsuit awards, Republican lawmakers are organizing to reinstate caps overturned by the state’s highest court. Businesses can now face lawsuits with unlimited...
Glatfelter Healthcare Practice Adds AIG as Carrier, Expands Program
Jan 20 2015 // Glatfelter Healthcare Practice (GHP), an insurance program serving senior living facilities, home health care and other private homecare agencies, has expanded its program coverage with a new carrier, AIG. The package...
Aon Sees Healthcare Workers’ Compensation Claims Dropping
Jan 19 2015 // Workers’ compensation costs and claims frequency in the healthcare sector are going down, according to a report that studied 1,1150 facilities in 11 states. Aon Risk Solutions’ Health Care Workers’...
Farmers Files Suit Against Multiple N.Y. No-Fault Medical Providers
Jan 8 2015 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Group announced that Farmers Insurance Exchange, one of the insurers comprising Farmers Insurance Group, and affiliates have filed a lawsuit in the state Supreme Court of New York...
