Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Court: Negligence Not Transferred to Illinois Woman Murdered by Husband
Sep 30 2009 // The Illinois Supreme Court has sided with health care providers who treated a mentally ill man who subsequently murdered his wife. In Brenda Tedrick, Adm’r Of The Estate Of Teresa Street, Deceased, et al., V....
U.S. Should Focus on Value, Pay Doctors a Salary: Healthcare Experts
Sep 24 2009 // The secret to fixing healthcare in the United States is to focus on value, a measure that takes into account both quality and cost, says Dr. Denis Cortese, president of the Mayo Clinic. The Rochester, Minnesota-based...
Pennsylvania Hospital Says Patients Exposed to ‘Health Risk’
Sep 21 2009 // The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center says some patients at one of its hospitals in northwestern Pennsylvania have been exposed to an unspecified “health risk.” UPMC says the patients who recently had...
Washington Tosses Medical Malpractice Merit Certificate Law
Sep 21 2009 // The state Supreme Court unanimously threw out a 2006 Washington law that requires an injured patient to get a certificate of merit from an expert before suing for medical malpractice. The high court ruled that the law...
What to Know About Red Flags, Notification Laws and the Hi Tech Act
Sep 21 2009 // Data breaches have hit an all time high and with that have been a dramatic increase in new data security and privacy laws and regulations. Both state and federal regulations have been in place for several years with...
Missouri: Medical Malpractice Insurers Profitable 5 Years in a Row
Sep 21 2009 // Insurance companies providing medical malpractice coverage in Missouri were profitable in 2008. It was the fifth consecutive year for positive earnings in that line of insurance, according to Missouri Department of...
Las Vegas Malpractice Fraud Case Reinstated by Federal Court
Sep 21 2009 // A federal appeals court has reinstated a criminal case against a Las Vegas attorney and medical consultant accused of participating in a scheme to inflate medical costs, protect doctors from malpractice lawsuits and share...
Obama Grants $25 Million to States for Medical Malpractice Pilot Projects
Sep 18 2009 // The White House said Thursday it had allocated $25 million in grants to states for a pilot program that would seek to ease the impact of malpractice suits on the U.S. medical system, as President Barack Obama pushes for...
Leahy Bill Repeals Antitrust Exemption for Malpractice, Health Insurance Companies
Sep 18 2009 // Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. has introduced legislation to eliminate a federal antitrust exemption for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance companies. As the Senate prepares to...
Georgia’s Medical Malpractice Award Cap Goes Before State’s High Court
Sep 16 2009 // Georgia’s top court is set to decide the fate of a 2005 law that limits pain and suffering damages awarded in medical malpractice cases. The Georgia Supreme Court heard a case this week weighing the merits of a...
Text: Sen. Baucus Introduces to Senate Financial Committee Health Bill
Sep 16 2009 // The following announcment was released by the office of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.). Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.) today introduced the America’s Healthy Future...
Obama Gives Proponents Hope for Medical Malpractice Reform
Sep 14 2009 // Following President Barack Obama’s offer of compromise on an issue that has long divided Washington, congressional health care negotiators are considering proposals to foster alternatives to medical malpractice...
Missouri to Study Timeliness of Health Insurers’ Reimbursements
Sep 14 2009 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has ordered the state Department of Insurance to determine whether health insurance companies in Missouri are withholding reimbursement payments to health care providers for unreasonable lengths of...
Missouri: Medical Malpractice Insurers Profitable for 5th Year in a Row
Sep 8 2009 // Insurance companies providing medical malpractice coverage in Missouri returned a profit in 2008, marking the fifth consecutive year of positive earnings, Missouri Department of Insurance says. The department said its...
New York Extends Freeze on Malpractice Insurance Rates
Sep 7 2009 // Gov. David Paterson has signed legislation to freeze medical malpractice insurance rates in New York for another year, but the state’s largest insurer said it leaves the company financially weaker while efforts to...
Red Flags, Notification Laws and Hi Tech Act – What Does It All Mean?
Sep 7 2009 // Data breaches have hit an all time high and with that have been a dramatic increase in new data security and privacy laws and regulations. Both state and federal regulations have been in place for several years with...
Texas Releases Performance Results for Workers’ Comp Carriers
Aug 31 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation has posted on its Web site the 2009 Performance-Based Oversight (PBO) Results for workers’ compensation insurance carriers and selected health...
Idaho Supreme Court Hears Propofol Malpractice Case
Aug 25 2009 // The Idaho Supreme Court is considering whether a judge was wrong to throw out a jury decision awarding $750,000 to a woman whose two-year-old son died after surgery to repair a dog bite wound. Attorneys for Melinda Coombs...
New Hampshire Court Sets October Date for Malpractice Fund Arguments
Aug 19 2009 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments on Oct. 15 in a dispute between the state and medical providers over $110 million in a malpractice fund. The state had asked the court to expedite the appeal....
Family of Connecticut Woman Gets $1M in Malpractice Case
Aug 17 2009 // The family of a Connecticut woman who died five days after ovarian surgery has received $1 million from the insurance company of two doctors sued for medical malpractice. The lawyer for Barbara Beaudoin’s estate says...
