Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ACE Launches CPL Coverage for Healthcare Industry Construction Projects
Jun 12 2013 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group, has introduced a new contractors pollution liability (CPL) owner-controlled insurance program (OCIP) for the healthcare industry. This new policy can be used to...
Why Clients Might Need Foreign Voluntary Workers’ Comp
Jun 3 2013 // In spite of videoconferencing, social media and other new technologies, many businesses depend on their key executives and top sales people to travel overseas to meet with clients in person, to negotiate with foreign...
Jordan Joins Lockton as Health Risk Consultant in California
May 28 2013 // Robert Jordan has joined the Southern California operations of Lockton Insurance Brokers as health risk solutions consultant. Jordan’s has nearly 20 years of experience, including corporate human resources, risk...
Montana Workers File Lawsuits Against Medical Provider
May 28 2013 // Six lawsuits have been filed against Partnership Health Center in Missoula, Mont. by workers contending they were forced to work off the clock without pay, full-time workers being replaced with part-timers who don’t...
Idaho State University To Pay $400K For Medical Records Breach
May 24 2013 // Idaho State University is paying a $400,000 to the federal government to settle allegations it improperly exposed confidential medical records. In August 2011, ISU told the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of a...
PIAA Rebrands to Correspond with Current Role in MPL Field
May 22 2013 // The Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA) has made changes to its organizational brand to support the Association’s role in the medical professional liability (MPL) community. They also reflect the impact...
Follmer to Head Health Care Practice for Woodruff Sawyer in California
May 20 2013 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. named Chad Follmer health care practice Leader. Follmer has focused his 20-year career on insurance and risk management strategies developing and leading platforms to serve health care...
Alabama Supreme Court Upholds $3.2 Million Malpractice Verdict
May 20 2013 // The Alabama Supreme Court has reinstated a $3.2 million malpractice verdict awarded to the estate of a Montgomery woman who died in 2005 after being treated at the Baptist East Emergency Room in Montgomery. Lauree Durden...
Medical Malpractice Payouts Not Driving Up Health Costs: Study
May 20 2013 // Efforts to lower health care costs in the United States have focused at times on demands to reform the medical malpractice system, with some researchers asserting that large, headline-grabbing and “frivolous”...
Florida Lawmakers Approve Medical Malpractice Reform
May 20 2013 // In a victory for medical malpractice insurers and physicians, Florida lawmakers have approved a series of tort reforms that among other things will require expert witnesses testifying against physicians in a malpractice...
Report: New Mexico Facing Medical Access Difficulties
May 16 2013 // New Mexicans could have longer waits for a doctor or specialist as demand grows for medical services because of an aging population and expanded insurance coverage under a federal health care law, legislative auditors said...
Medical Liability Market Profitable But Deteriorating Results Expected: Fitch
May 14 2013 // The medical professional liability insurance (MPLI) market was one of the most profitable lines of business in the United States for the past five years, according to a new report. MPLI posted an average calendar year...
Medical Malpractice Payouts Not Driving Up Health Costs: Study
May 8 2013 // Efforts to lower health care costs in the United States have focused at times on demands to reform the medical malpractice system, with some researchers asserting that large, headline-grabbing and “frivolous”...
Fundamental Changes Spur Health Spending Dip: Study
May 7 2013 // Slower growth in the pace of U.S. healthcare spending reflects a fundamental change in the use of medical services that could save the country nearly $800 billion in the next decade, according to two new studies released...
Ohio Justices: Doctor’s Apology not Evidence of Malpractice
May 6 2013 // Sympathetic statements by a doctor over a patient’s unexpected medical outcome can’t be admitted as evidence in medical malpractice cases filed after the date a law intended to outlaw their use went into effect...
Florida Lawmakers Approve Medical Malpractice Reform
May 3 2013 // In a victory for medical malpractice insurers and physicians, Florida lawmakers have approved a series of tort reforms that among other things will require expert witnesses testifying against physicians in a malpractice...
Debate Stalls on Missouri Malpractice Liability Limits Legislation
May 2 2013 // An effort to reinstate Missouri’s cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits stumbled on April 30 in the state Senate. Senators discussed the legislation for about eight hours and worked into night...
Florida Medical Malpractice Bill Fate Uncertain
May 2 2013 // The Florida House this took up a bill that critics say would make it harder to pursue medical malpractice claims. But the bill also had fallen victim to a tactic by Democrats upset that the House Republican leadership...
Highmark Closes $604M Buyout of West Penn Allegheny Bondholders
Apr 29 2013 // Insurer Highmark Inc. on Monday completed a $604.2 million bondholder buyout of troubled West Penn Allegheny Health System at 87.5 cents on the dollar. The buyout, in which Highmark acquired just over 85 percent of the...
CompWest, Phoenix Risk Management to Offer WC for California Healthcare Workers
Apr 26 2013 // The steady rise in employment in the health care industry over the last six years, as jobs in most other fields disappeared, has created an opportunity for expansion for Accident Fund Holdings, Inc. in the health care area...
