Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
IronHealth, The Sullivan Group to Offer Obstetrics Risk Management Services
Apr 26 2012 // IronHealth, Ironshore’s specialty healthcare unit, has entered into an agreement with The Sullivan Group, an international healthcare risk management and patient safety organization, to help clients manage risk...
Republicans Prepare Should Supreme Court Overturn Healthcare Plan
Apr 23 2012 // Republicans in Congress are getting ready to answer an election-year question that has dogged the party’s campaign for months: How would it replace President Barack Obama’s healthcare law if the measure is...
Massachusetts Docs Eye New Approach to Medical Malpractice Claims
Apr 19 2012 // It may become easier in the future for Massachusetts doctors to apologize for mistakes if an experiment by three major hospitals to reduce medical malpractice lawsuits succeeds. The program, called Disclosure, Apology and...
Maine Woman Awarded $1.9M in Malpractice Suit
Apr 17 2012 // A Maine woman who sued a doctor for malpractice because she said he overprescribed her methadone has been awarded $1.9 million by a jury Charlene Whalen of Corinth sued Dr. Steven Weisberger, alleging the dosage of the...
NAS Allied Medical Facility to Offer GL on Occurrence Basis
Apr 17 2012 // NAS Insurance Services Allied Medical Facility is expanding its medical malpractice coverage to offer general liability coverage on an occurrence basis. Limits for professional and general liability up to $6 million are...
ACE USA, RPS Healthcare Expand E&O Coverage for Podiatrists
Apr 16 2012 // ACE USA’s ACE Medical Risk Division now offers increased reimbursement limits for legal expenses incurred because of an action by a federal or state agency arising from a podiatrist’s participation in the...
How Health Care Reform Will Reshape the Medical Malpractice Market
Apr 16 2012 // The Supreme Court is holding the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 in its hands, but that hasn’t stopped the medical malpractice liability market from developing new products and taking...
Court to Decide on Florida Medical Malpractice Caps
Apr 16 2012 // The fate of Florida’s caps on damages in medical malpractice cases now rests with the state’s high court after attorneys debated whether the caps are constitutional. The Florida Supreme Court recently heard...
Nearly 3K Medical Professional Liability Claims Closed in Ohio in 2010
Apr 12 2012 // Close to 3,000 medical professional liability claims were closed in Ohio in 2010, regulators report. The Ohio Department of Insurance’s annual Ohio Medical Professional Liability Closed Claim Report for 2010 showed a...
EK Health Names Benner Chief Medical Officer
Apr 9 2012 // San Jose, Calif.-based EK Health Services, a national workers’ compensation managed care firm, has promoted Dr. Douglas Benner to chief medical officer. As CMO, Benner is responsible for leading the operational...
Utah Medical Records Breach More Extensive
Apr 9 2012 // Health officials in Utah say hackers who downloaded thousands of medical files from state computers last week stole far more personal information than originally thought. The Utah Department of Health said Friday that...
Florida Supreme Court to Decide on Medical Malpractice Caps
Apr 2 2012 // The fate of Florida’s caps on damages in medical malpractice cases now rests with the state’s high court after attorneys on both sides of the issue debated whether the caps are constitutional. The Florida...
Massachusetts Health Care 5-Year Lobbying Topped $51M
Mar 29 2012 // Hospitals, insurers, doctors and unions are spending tens of millions of dollars trying to make sure their voices are heard on Beacon Hill as Massachusetts lawmakers weigh sweeping changes to the way the state pays for...
Change to Connecticut Medical Malpractice Law in Dispute
Mar 26 2012 // State lawmakers are moving ahead with legislation they say will fix a problem with Connecticut’s medical malpractice law that has kept some legitimate lawsuits out of the courts, despite heavy opposition from the...
2012 Hot Markets: Healthcare Remains a Healthy Market
Mar 19 2012 // This article is part of our Hot Insurance Markets for 2012 special feature. Healthcare is one of the country’s largest industries. Annual spending on healthcare in the U.S. tops $2.6 trillion, more than 16 percent of...
BP Medical Claims
Mar 19 2012 // The $7.8 billion settlement that BP is hammering out with victims of the massive Gulf oil spill provides a system for monitoring health concerns and compensating people whose illnesses are found to have a link to the...
N.Y. Unveils Plan to Shut Down Fraud Docs, Medical Mills
Mar 19 2012 // Dishonest doctors and medical mills in New York better watch out! Following highly publicized crackdowns of major auto insurance fraud rings in the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a statewide initiative this month to...
N.Y. Unveils Plan to Shut Down Fraud Docs, Medical Mills
Mar 14 2012 // Dishonest doctors and medical mills in New York better watch out! Following highly publicized crackdowns of major auto insurance fraud rings in the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a statewide initiative this month to...
Nebraska Medical Liability Insurer Adds Staff, Announces Promotions
Mar 9 2012 // Preferred Professional Insurance Company (PPIC), an Omaha, Neb.-based Catholic-owned medical liability insurance firm, has hired Patti Hiemer as the company’s accounting clerk and made a number of staff...
Medical Malpractice Rates Lowered For Three Companies in California
Mar 8 2012 // Rates have been lower for medical malpractice insurance offered by NORCAL Mutual Insurance, The Dentists Insurance Company, and the Medical Insurance Exchange of California’s Physicians and Surgeons program, saving...
