Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Hampshire Challenged on Speedy Malpractice Fund Appeal
Aug 13 2009 // A group of medical providers is challenging New Hampshire’s request for a speedy appeals process in a dispute over a malpractice fund. Lawyers for Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia and other policyholders of...
New York Extends Freeze on Malpractice Insurance Rates
Aug 12 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...
New Hampshire Appeals Ruling Denying Malpractice Fund Claim
Aug 6 2009 // New Hampshire has appealed a lower court ruling denying its claim to a $110 million surplus in a fund that underwrites malpractice insurance. The state counted on $65 million of the money to help balance the budget in the...
New Hampshire Judge Rejects State’s Claim on Malpractice Fund
Jul 31 2009 // A New Hampshire judge has rejected the state’s claim on a $110 million surplus in a fund that underwrites malpractice insurance. The state counted on $65 million of the money to help balance the budget in the fiscal...
Ruling Expected Soon on Tapping New Hampshire Malpractice Fund
Jul 29 2009 // A judge is expected to rule this week whether New Hampshire can take $110 million from a malpractice insurance fund to balance the state budget. Judge Kathleen McGuire froze the fund last month until its ownership is...
New Jersey Court Overturns $75M Malpractice Award
Jul 27 2009 // The New Jersey Supreme Court has overturned one of the largest medical malpractice suit verdicts in state history. Citing numerous trial errors and other problems, the justices reversed the $75 million in damages awarded...
WWII Veteran Wins Malpractice Suit Against Hospital in Mississippi
Jul 24 2009 // A judge has awarded $749,000 to the estate of a World War II veteran who lost much of his vision during a surgery at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in Jackson, Mississippi. Charles West died May...
Arizona Governor Signs Bill on Medical Malpractice Suits
Jul 13 2009 // Arizona is making it harder to successfully sue emergency medical providers for alleged malpractice. Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a bill approved by the Legislature to raise the required burden of proof for claims of...
Wisconsin Court: Witnesses Cannot Seek Medical Damages
Jul 13 2009 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court on July 10 tossed out a $200,000 award to a father who watched one of his twin sons die during birth in 1998. In a decision praised by doctors but criticized by trial lawyers, the court ruled...
Hiscox Bermuda Adds Two Healthcare Liability Underwriters
Jul 13 2009 // International specialist insurer Hiscox Ltd. announced the appointment of two healthcare underwriters to Hiscox Bermuda, subject to immigration approvals. Ian Thompson (Senior Vice President – Healthcare) and Nick...
New York Charges Doctors, Hospital Employees with No-Fault Fraud
Jul 9 2009 // New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced the indictment of 12 people and 9 corporations across New York City for their roles in an alleged criminal enterprise that paid hospital employees for confidential...
New York Delays Medical Malpractice Rates Pending Lawmakers’ Action
Jul 8 2009 // Acting New York State Insurance Superintendent Kermitt Brooks announced today that he is delaying the setting of new medical malpractice insurance rates. He said the delay is to allow time for the Senate to respond to the...
Real Estate Malpractice Insurance Operating at a Loss in Missouri
Jul 1 2009 // The real estate malpractice insurance line of business has operated at a loss over the last decade, according to a report recently released by the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional...
Tennessee Jurors Claim They Felt Pressured in Malpractice Case
Jun 30 2009 // Four jurors wrote affidavits claiming they felt coerced by the court to rule against a doctor who lost a $6.12 million medical malpractice case, a The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported. The affidavits came in the case...
Medical Liability Insurer Dropping Rates by 11% in Texas
Jun 30 2009 // Austin, Texas-based medical professional liability insurer, Medicus Insurance Company (Medicus) has announced an overall 11 percent rate decrease for its insureds in Texas. The Texas Department of Insurance approved the...
New Hampshire Ruling Clouds State’s Claim to Malpractice Fund
Jun 29 2009 // A judge has rejected New Hampshire’s claim that a medical malpractice fund is an agency of the state. Judge Kathleen McGuire’s ruling Thursday appears to undercut the state’s argument that it can use a...
Ariz. Senate OKs ER Medical Malpractice Bill
Jun 26 2009 // The Arizona Senate has voted to make it harder to successfully sue emergency medical providers for alleged malpractice. The Senate’s 21-8 vote approving a bill to raise the required burden of proof for claims of...
Healthcare Providers: New Hampshire Can’t Take $110M Surplus
Jun 22 2009 // A coalition of more than 200 healthcare providers and policyholders has gone to court, saying the state has no right to take a $110 million surplus from a New Hampshire fund that underwrites malpractice insurance and use...
Florida Judge Rules Out Punitive Damages in Accounting Malpractice
Jun 17 2009 // A Miami judge ruled on Tuesday that BDO International B.V. should not have to pay $352 million in punitive damages awarded against its U.S. member, BDO Seidman, in an ongoing landmark audit malpractice trial. Closing...
Obama Seeks Doctors’ Support But Opposes Caps on Malpractice Awards
Jun 17 2009 // President Barack Obama warned doctors Monday the U.S. healthcare system was a ticking time bomb and urged them to support his overhaul, which includes a public insurance plan that many of them view with skepticism. Obama...
