Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Perfect Storm Brings Opportunities in Covering Health Care Providers
Apr 19 2010 // Health Care Reform Opens Doors for New Exposures and Markets Those in the business of providing liability coverage to doctors, nurses and other health care professionals, may have just found themselves in a perfect storm...
Father Loses California Malpractice Suit Over Son’s Brain Damage
Apr 19 2010 // A man who claimed his infant son was left brain-damaged after surgery at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles has lost a $19-million lawsuit. A Los Angeles jury ruled in favor of the hospital and two doctors. Eduardo Rivas of...
Pennsylvania Ordered to Add Millions to Malpractice Fund
Apr 19 2010 // A state court has ruled that Pennsylvania has mishandled a fund to help physicians pay malpractice premiums and ordered the state to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars out of its general fund to resolve a pair of...
Oregon Medical Malpractice Rates Decline
Apr 16 2010 // For the fourth year in a row, most physicians and surgeons in Oregon will see a decline or no change in medical professional liability insurance rates, according to rate changes reviewd by the state Department of Consumer...
Malpractice Concerns Lead to Unnecessary Health Tests, Study Says
Apr 14 2010 // Concerns about malpractice suits influence how often cardiologists order some potentially unnecessary tests — resulting in significant variations in healthcare use and spending across the United States, according to...
Chartis Offers Policyholders Storage of Electronic Health Records
Apr 12 2010 // Chartis will now offer storage of electronic personal health records to clients worldwide through a strategic alliance with MMR Information Systems. The Chartis insurers will initially offer this access to electronic...
Audit: Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Fund in Poor Shape
Apr 1 2010 // A fund that helps Wisconsin health care providers pay medical malpractice claims is in poor financial shape after lawmakers raided $200 million to balance the budget, auditors have warned. The Injured Patients and Families...
Missouri High Court Narrows Medical Malpractice Limits
Mar 25 2010 // The Missouri Supreme Court has slightly narrowed the scope of a 2005 state law limiting how much money can be awarded to people in medical malpractice cases. The high court’s March 23 ruling provided a victory for...
Georgia Supreme Court Rules Medical Awards Cap Unconstitutional
Mar 22 2010 // The Georgia Supreme Court has struck a cap on medical malpractice awards imposed in 2005 as part of a package of legislative tort reforms. The state’s high court said the law limiting noneconomic damages in medical...
Medicus Adds Network Security Endorsement for Healthcare Providers
Mar 19 2010 // Medicus Insurance Co. has created an endorsement that gives insureds coverage for unintentional network security, billing, regulatory and privacy violations. The new endorsement is called Medicus Advantage Gold. The...
Tennessee Couple Wins $19.2 Million in Malpractice Suit
Mar 17 2010 // A woman who sued after surgery for a broken leg left her partially paralyzed has been awarded $19.2 million by a federal court jury in Chattanooga that also returned a $3 million verdict for her husband. The Chattanooga...
Texas High Court Upholds 10-Year Filing Period in Med-Mal Lawsuits
Mar 17 2010 // In a move Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says validates Texas’ medical malpractice laws, the Texas Supreme Court has upheld the state’s 10-year limitation, or statute of repose, on filing medical...
Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Emergency Room Tort Reform Law
Mar 15 2010 // The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the state’s 2005 tort reform legislation that limits the liability of emergency room medical care providers. The 4-3 ruling turned aside complaints that the law is...
Ironshore Releases Site Pollution Liability Program for Medical Facilities
Mar 10 2010 // Ironshore Inc. has introduced an environmental insurance program to help healthcare facilities manage environmental liability exposures and curtail restitution expenses. Ironshore’s Environmental Insurance division...
Insurers Urged to Keep Improvements to Medical Liability Line in Illinois
Mar 7 2010 // The consulting and actuarial firm, Milliman, reports that the Illinois Supreme Court’s overturn of caps on non-economic damages in medical liability cases will increase claim costs in that state. It’s thought...
Illinois Urges Continued Competition, Lower Rates in Medical Liability Line
Feb 23 2010 // The Illinois Department of Insurance reported it has observed increased competition and 10 percent decrease in premium paid in the medical malpractice line of insurance since reforms were enacted in 2005. The Department of...
IMA Inc. Appoints Hartman to Health Risk Management Practice in Denver
Feb 23 2010 // IMA Inc., an independently owned retail insurance broker announced that Brent Hartman has joined the company’s health risk management practice, Life IQ, in the Denver office. Life IQ is IMA’s multidisciplinary...
Medical Malpractice Excluded from Health Insurers’ Antitrust Legislation
Feb 22 2010 // Free-standing legislation introduced by Reps. Betsy Markey of Colorado and Thomas Perriello of Virginia to amend the McCarran-Ferguson Act for health insurers no longer includes text to remove the limited antitrust...
Average Medical Professional Liability Claim Payout Is $252.5K in Ohio
Feb 21 2010 // The Ohio Medical Professional Liability Closed Claim Report for 2008 shows a total of 3,080 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2008 by 93 insurance entities. The average payment per closed claim was...
Medical Malpractice Insurers Could Keep Antitrust Protection
Feb 18 2010 // Democrats appear to be removing medical malpractice insurers from a bill to eliminate the antitrust exemption for health insurers in the McCarran-Ferguson Act. According to Politico.com, Democratic aides in the House said...
