Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Cancerous Transplant Malpractice Case Revived by Minnesota Court
Jan 4 2015 // A malpractice case for a Minnesota woman who died after receiving a transplant of a cancerous pancreas may be headed for a trial. The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled the case against Dr. Ty Dunn should head to court...
Federal Report Shows New Hampshire Hospitals Reduced Errors
Dec 28 2014 // New Hampshire hospitals are making progress in reducing both errors and unnecessary readmissions, according to new federal data. The federal Department of Health and Human Services released a report this month estimating...
Florida Appeals Court Ruling Opens Door for Cruise Line Malpractice Suits
Dec 24 2014 // Pasquale Vaglio, a retired New York City policeman and Korean War veteran, was on the cruise of a lifetime with 18 family members in the summer of 2001 aboard Royal Caribbean’s “Explorer of the Seas.”...
Hospital Medical Errors Down 17%, Reports HHS
Dec 3 2014 // A federal review of hospital medical records and other data has found a 17 percent decline in infections, drug mistakes, bed sores and other preventable errors from 2010 to 2013, according to a report. Using methods...
Texas Man Claims Medical Errors Led to Leg Amputations
Nov 21 2014 // A Texas man intending to undergo a weight-loss operation is seeking $10 million in damages for what he says were a series of medical blunders that led to the amputation of both his legs at the knee. Carlos Saucedo has...
Michigan Court: Agents May Not Be ‘Professionals’ Under Malpractice Definition
Nov 19 2014 // Is an insurance agent a “professional” when it comes to whether or not he or she may be charged with malpractice? Not necessarily, a Michigan state appeals court has said. The Michigan Court of Appeals made...
Hlasney Named Director, of Lockton Health Risk Solutions in Kansas City
Nov 18 2014 // Todd Hlasney has been promoted to director of Lockton Health Risk Solutions for Lockton’s Kansas City benefits operation. Hlasney joined Lockton in 2013 as a Health Risk Solutions consultant, partnering with client...
Lockton Hires Amato as Health Risk Solutions Director in D.C.
Nov 13 2014 // Karen Amato Privately-held insurance broker Lockton hired Karen Amato as director of Health Risk Solutions for the firm’s Washington, D.C., employee benefits operation. Amato is a registered nurse with expertise in...
Health Plan Costs Up Slightly; What Employers Are Doing About It
Nov 13 2014 // In 2014, U.S. companies and their employees saw a slight uptick in the rate of U.S. health care cost increases, according to an analysis by corporate health and benefits consultant Aon Hewitt. After plan design changes and...
ABD Insurance Adds Life Sciences Portal, Clinical Trial Coverage
Nov 13 2014 // San Mateo, Calif.-based ABD Insurance and Financial Services (ABD) announced new insurance and technology offerings in its Life Science Practice: a client portal and Clinical Trial Pac coverage. Life science companies...
Restricting Malpractice Suits Against Physicians May Not Reduce Defensive Medicine
Nov 3 2014 // Changing laws to make it more difficult to sue physicians for medical malpractice may not reduce the amount of “defensive medicine” practiced by physicians, according to a new RAND Corp. study. Studying the...
Tougher State Malpractice Laws May Not Reduce Defensive Medicine
Nov 3 2014 // Changing laws to make it more difficult to sue physicians for medical malpractice may not reduce the amount of “defensive medicine” practiced by physicians, according to a new study. Studying the behavior of...
Penn. Agrees to $200M Settlement in Med Mal Fund Case
Nov 3 2014 // Health care providers will be getting $200 million from the state of Pennsylvania in a settlement announced on Oct. 16 over litigation about a massive fund set up to help doctors pay malpractice insurance...
Pennsylvania’s Mcare Fund Assessment Down 48% for 2015 Coverage
Oct 31 2014 // Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced the assessment for the state’s Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (Mcare) Fund — a medical liability coverage fund run by the state — will decrease 48...
California Malpractice Proposition Hit by Polls, Studies, Spending
Oct 29 2014 // Two recent studies say a proposition on California’s November ballot to raise the pain and suffering cap for medical malpractice lawsuits will increase medical costs and malpractice premiums. The studies and heavy...
N.Y., N.J. Governors Stress Home Quarantine for Ebola Workers
Oct 28 2014 // State leaders in New York and New Jersey are at odds with scientists over Ebola as the states’ governors back 21-day quarantines for medical workers returning from West Africa, while the nation’s top...
Tougher State Malpractice Laws May Not Reduce Defensive Medicine
Oct 27 2014 // Changing laws to make it more difficult to sue physicians for medical malpractice may not reduce the amount of “defensive medicine” practiced by physicians, according to a new study. Studying the behavior of...
RLI Launches Healthcare Liability Division
Oct 23 2014 // Specialty insurer RLI Corp. of Peoria, Ill., has launched a new healthcare liability unit, RLI Healthcare, and tapped Scott Ducey, former vice president of the healthcare division at Torus, to lead the new division as vice...
Freedom Specialty, Pro-Praxis Unite for Healthcare Professional Liability
Oct 23 2014 // Freedom Specialty, an arm of Scottsdale Insurance Co., is partnering with healthcare underwriter Pro-Praxis, part of the Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford Group, for a specialized excess healthcare professional liability...
New York Says It’s Ready for Ebola, but Many Health Workers Aren’t So Sure
Oct 22 2014 // Millicent Gist, a receptionist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, was surprised to hear her facility was an officially designated hospital for people suspected of having Ebola in New York City. That’s...
