Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Wy. Doctors Surveyed on Med-Mal Tail Coverage
Oct 12 2004 // Wyoming physicians plan to seek at least $2 million from a new state low-interest loan program to help doctors cover any malpractice claims while switching insurance carriers or retiring. An informal survey sent to...
According to Study, Insurers Continue to Price-Gouge Doctors Despite Falling Med-Mal Payouts
Oct 12 2004 // With the issue of medical malpractice and “tort reform” becoming an increasingly discussed topic this election year, Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR) announced the release of a new study of medical...
Climbing Medical Insurance Rates Challenge N.C. Economy, Says DMLR
Oct 10 2004 // North Carolina’s economic woes are reportedly well-known, with textile mills shutting down, a less-than encouraging national financial outlook, and lengthy lines at the unemployment office. The situation may continue...
PIAA: Both Presidential Tickets Recognize Medical Crisis; Kerry-Edwards Fails to Embrace the Solution
Oct 8 2004 // Both candidates in the vice presidential debate on Tuesday evening, Oct. 5 acknowledged the ongoing medical liability crisis in the United States, according to the Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA), an...
Higher Malpractice Rates Looming for Colorado Doctors
Oct 8 2004 // The biggest medical malpractice insurer in Colorado said it is preparing for its largest rate increase in 16 years. COPIC Insurance said it is notifying 6,000 doctors of a 15.9 percent rate increase, taking insurance to an...
Malpractice Claims Drop in Okla. a Year After Reforms
Oct 7 2004 // Reforms to Oklahoma’s civil justice system passed last year have contributed to a drop in medical malpractice cases, officials say. “Our claims have gone down as dramatically, if not more dramatically, than...
Md. Docs Postpone Surgery Slowdown
Oct 6 2004 // Four Washington County, Maryland doctors have agreed to an indefinite delay of their plan to halt non-emergency surgery to protest a 33 percent increase in medical malpractice insurance premiums. After a meeting with Gov....
Cheney, Edwards Spar Over Medical Liability Issue During VP Debate
Oct 6 2004 // Around and around they went. For some 90 minutes, Vice President Dick Cheney and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards debated and most often, disagreed on the issues, during the first and only Vice Presidential debate Tuesday...
PCI: Connecticut Needs to Make Common Sense Reforms to Medical Liability System
Oct 5 2004 // Connecticut urgently needs to make common-sense reforms to its medical liability system in order to preserve patients’ legal rights while protecting affordable patient care and enhancing the stability of the...
U.S. Human Services Chief Thompson Hopes ‘Early Offers’ Pilot Will Reduce Medical Error Litigation
Sep 22 2004 // Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has announced an “Early Offers” pilot program aimed at encouraging settlements of patients claiming to have been injured by medical mistakes. HHS...
Making of a Malpractice Mess in N.H.: The Son, the Lab and the Lawyer
Sep 20 2004 // From Concord, New Hampshire comes a tale about a laboratory, a lawyer and an alienated family. It resulted in a lost lab, a legal mess—and questionable conduct by the lawyer, according to the state Supreme Court...
Ill.’s Gov. Blagojevich Appoints Ex-Judge to Mediate Med-Mal Negotiations
Sep 17 2004 // After months of partisan and special interest stalemate over medical malpractice reform in the Illinois General Assembly, Gov. Rod Blagojevich has appointed a former judge and hospital lawyer to mediate ongoing...
Workers’ Compensation Reform Regulations Move Forward On Schedule
Sep 14 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is on track to meet its Nov. 1 deadline for adopting emergency regulations that will allow medical provider networks to begin...
Huntington Named Palmer & Cay Southwest Health Care Practice Leader
Sep 13 2004 // James B. Meathe, president and chief operating officer for Palmer & Cay, announced that Richard Huntington has joined Palmer & Cay in the position of Southwest Health Care Practice Leader. Huntington will be...
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco
Sep 13 2004 // Laying a Foundation for Long Term Success Being first is not a new thing to Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who was sworn in on January 12, 2004 as the first female Governor of Louisiana. Twenty years earlier, at the beginning...
Advocate, MD Insurance of the Southwest Enters Texas Malpractice Insurance Market
Sep 8 2004 // Announcing its entrance into the Texas malpractice insurance market, Advocate, MD Insurance of the Southwest said its improved coverage options and excellent rates are proof that tort reform efforts ushered in last year...
Proponents Laud Success of Medical Liability Reforms
Sep 6 2004 // It’s been a year since the voters of Texas passed Proposition 12, which ushered in reforms designed to lower the cost of medical liability insurance for doctors and health care institutions, and its supporters are...
Wash. Physicians Launch Campaign for Liability Reform
Sep 1 2004 // Frustrated by the lack of action on meaningful medical liability reform, physicians today launched an initiative campaign designed to break the gridlock in Olympia over sensible reform of medical liability laws. Doctors...
W. Va. Okays Rate Hike for Medical Malpractice Insurer
Aug 31 2004 // The Associated Press reported that an insurance company that had threatened to stop offering medical malpractice coverage to doctors in West Virginia has been granted a 9.5 percent rate increase, according to Gov. Bob...
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
Aug 26 2004 // Laying a Foundation for Long Term Success By Stephanie K. Jones Being first is not a new thing to Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who was sworn in on Jan. 12, 2004, as the first female Governor of Louisiana. Twenty years...
