Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ACE, Trust Risk Management Launch Small Healthcare Provider Program
Apr 26 2013 // ACE USA’s Medical Risk Group has expanded its relationship with Trust Risk Management Services, Inc. (TRMS) to offer an admitted professional and general liability policy designed to provide insurance protection to a...
Ohio Justices: Doctor’s Apology not Evidence of Malpractice
Apr 25 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...
Family Sues Idaho Hospital Over Father’s Death
Apr 23 2013 // James Dorsey led a full and active life, his final years spent helping care for his grandchildren and enjoying big family dinners. The 70-year-old died Sept. 12, 2011 at Complex Care of Idaho in Meridian. His family...
Massive Overhaul of West Virginia Health System Urged
Apr 22 2013 // Few states spend as much on health care as West Virginia, but you wouldn’t know it from the results. That has a new study urging major changes, both for health services generally and the government agency that helps...
Georgia Jury Awards Family $17M for Hospital Malpractice
Apr 19 2013 // A DeKalb County family has been awarded more than $17 million in after a jury found a physician’s assistant liable for causing a man’s brain injury. Sheriod Merritt was hit by a stray bullet in a shooting and...
New York Family Awarded $130M in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Apr 19 2013 // A Long Island, N.Y., family has been awarded $130 million in a malpractice lawsuit. The parents of Shannon Reilly of Bayport had sued St. Charles Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Port Jefferson. They claimed her...
Florida Hurricane Cat Fund Reform in Jeopardy
Apr 19 2013 // Plans to reform Florida’s state-backed reinsurance facility with proponents scaling back their proposals. The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund has been the subject of legislative reform efforts for several years as...
Florida Senate Passes Bill on Medical Malpractice Expert Witnesses
Apr 15 2013 // The Florida Senate is making it harder to pursue medical malpractice claims. The Senate last week voted 27-12 for the bill and sent it to the House. The legislation (SB 1792) requires that expert witnesses called against a...
ACE Expands PL Insurance Products to Address Hospital, Physician Integration
Apr 15 2013 // ACE USA’s Medical Risk Group has introduced a range of physician professional liability insurance products and coverage options in support of hospitals and healthcare facilities for their employed physicians, and...
Conn.-Based Medical Liability Insurer CMIC Appoints Director of Claims
Apr 11 2013 // CMIC, a Glastonbury, Conn.-based carrier offering medical professional liability insurance in New England, announced Kevin Bresnahan has joined the company as director of claims. Bresnahan brings 20 years of experience to...
Florida Justices Face Another PIP Conundrum: Medical Fees
Apr 8 2013 // Florida’s high court is poised to decide how much money insurers owe some medical providers in cases where an auto policy does not specifically state that the fees will be based on a fee schedule approved by state...
Tailor-Made Policies Provide Good Options for Medical and Professional Liability Market
Apr 8 2013 // Is coverage “tailor-made” for emerging industries the future of professional liability insurance? Traditional professional liability, which has typically served lawyers, accountants and doctors, isn’t...
How Obamacare Could Affect P/C Insurance
Apr 8 2013 // Key changes in federal health care reform remain months away, but property/casualty actuaries are already trying to determine what impact they will have on their business, particularly workers’ compensation and...
How to Navigate Addiction Rehabilitation Facilities Through Healthcare Reform
Apr 8 2013 // The medical community’s recognition of addiction as a disease has changed the way providers diagnose and treat the condition. As a result, facilities like alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers have had to expand...
Glatfelter Program Managers in Pennsylvania Names SVP of Healthcare Practice
Apr 2 2013 // Glatfelter Program Managers (GPM), York, Penn.-based Glatfelter Insurance Group’s program business unit, promoted industry veteran Sue Federinko to senior vice president of Glatfelter’s healthcare practice.Sue...
Missouri House Passes Medical Provider Liability Limit
Apr 1 2013 // The Missouri House has approved legislation seeking to reinstate a cap on some damages in medical malpractice lawsuits that the state Supreme Court struck down last summer. Doctors say the cap helps control malpractice...
ProAssurance, CAP Partner to Offer California Hospitals Liability Protection
Mar 29 2013 // ProAssurance Corp., a specialty writer of professional liability insurance, and the Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. (CAP) are partnering to offer a new liability protection product, CAPAssurance, for hospitals and...
Study Shows Medical Claims Cost Increasing in Delaware
Mar 28 2013 // A new study says medical claims costs in Delaware will increase by almost 30 percent for individual policies under President Obama’s health care reform plan. The report released Tuesday by the Society of Actuaries...
Report: Massachusetts to See Drop in Medical Claims Costs
Mar 28 2013 // Medical claims costs are expected to soar in many states under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Massachusetts is an exception. A new study by the nation’s leading group of financial risk analysts,...
How Obamacare Could Affect P/C Insurance
Mar 28 2013 // The key changes in federal health care reform remain months away but property/casualty actuaries are already trying to determine what impact they will have on their own lines of business, particularly workers’...
