Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Md. Senate President Calls for Med-Mal Special Session; Supports $50M State Fund to Freeze Rates
Aug 25 2004 // Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. called again for a special session on medical malpractice this fall. Miller (D-Calvert) said in an interview with the Washington Post that he would like to create a state...
THA: Texas Hospitals See Benefits of Liability Reform
Aug 24 2004 // The Texas Hospital Association (THA) reported that nearly a year after the passage of sweeping medical liability reform, Texas hospitals are seeing a significant drop in their liability costs and using the savings to...
Kentucky Governor Fletcher Keeps Commonwealth in Stride
Aug 23 2004 // Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R) has had a busy last few weeks. Between weighing in on the AIK Comp Fund issue in the Commonwealth and seeing to it that residents get the help they need from storms that rumbled through...
OREGON MALPRACTICE DAMAGE CAP HEADS TO BALLOT:
Aug 23 2004 // A proposed constitutional amendment to limit pain and suffering awards to $500,000 in Oregon medical malpractice cases will be on the ballot this November. Physicians said that rising malpractice insurance costs have made...
Maryland Pursues Unauthorized Med-Mal Insurers
Aug 20 2004 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. has moved to end what his agency says is a comprehensive scheme of medical malpractice fraud aimed, particularly, at women’s clinics. Redmer issued a cease and...
AIA Backs Medicare-Based Fee Schedule for Tenn. Workers’ Comp Medical Services
Aug 20 2004 // In testimony Friday before the Tennessee Department of Labor’s Medical Care and Cost Containment Committee, the American Insurance Association (AIA) endorsed a Medicare-based, objective fee schedule for provider...
NSU Chooses Miller to Lead Healthcare Division
Aug 17 2004 // National Specialty Underwriters Inc. (NSU) announced the hiring of Leslie Miller as senior vice president in charge of NSU Healthcare, a division of the company that specializes in the wholesale of medical professional...
Oregon Malpractice Damage Cap Heads to Ballot
Aug 3 2004 // Victims of medical malpractice would be denied their rights by a limit on damage awards, foes of the idea say, while advocates say the rising cost of malpractice insurance is keeping doctors out of Oregon. For the second...
Oregon Newspaper: Documents Detail Goldschmidt Work for SAIF
Aug 2 2004 // New documents reviewed by a Salem newspaper map out how former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt’s deal-brokering helped shape a plan on medical malpractice insurance for obstetricians in rural Oregon. The former governor was...
Senate Passes Confidential Medical Error Reporting System
Jul 27 2004 // Legislation approved by the U.S. Senate would set up a confidential, voluntary reporting system under which doctors and hospitals could disclose information on medical errors without fear of legal repercussions. Sponsors...
IHA: Illinoisans Need Legislative Action on Medical Liability Reform
Jul 23 2004 // Despite reported overwhelming support by the public and rank-and-file legislators for meaningful reforms to address Illinois’ medical liability crisis, legislators are reportedly being presented with a proposal...
Fla. Sen. Bill Nelson Continues to Fly New Missions for Sunshine State
Jul 23 2004 // Bill Nelson Florida Senator As his bio notes growing up as a child, Florida Senator Bill Nelson never imagined that one day he would both catapult into space from a NASA launch site just miles from his grandfather’s...
AIA Comments on Wyoming Med-Mal Amendment
Jul 23 2004 // The special session of the Wyoming legislature ended on Saturday, July 17, following the passage of a constitutional amendment that would allow for caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases. This measure...
Rightfield Solutions Joins with Pa. Insurer in Fight Against Rising Med-Mal Claims
Jul 22 2004 // An agreement announced recently by executives with Professional Casualty Association (PCA), a provider of insurance coverage to physicians in Pennsylvania, and Rightfield Solutions LLC, developers of Emmi, Expectation...
N.Y. MED-MAL RATES UP 7%:
Jul 19 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that the majority of New York State’s 50,000 physicians will see a 7 percent rate increase in their medical malpractice insurance premiums for the...
Harvard Studies: Flat Dollar Caps Unfair; Pa. Doctor Satisfaction Tied to Care
Jul 19 2004 // With about two-thirds of the United States facing what some experts describe as a medical malpractice crisis, a pair of studies show how liability concerns could be hurting patient care and also limiting patients’...
DMLR Launches Campaign in South Carolina
Jul 19 2004 // Doctors for Medical Liability Reform (DMLR), a coalition of more than 230,000 medical specialists dedicated to national medical liability reform, launched an aggressive advocacy campaign in the state of South Carolina...
Florida Senator Bill Nelson Continues to Fly New Missions
Jul 19 2004 // Flying New Missions Bill Nelson As his bio notes, as a child Florida Senator Bill Nelson never imagined that one day he would both catapult into space from a NASA launch site just miles from his grandfather’s...
Managing Patient Expectations Key to Reducing Malpractice Risk
Jul 19 2004 // While insurers and lawyers groups have debated the merits of capping medical malpractice awards in the statehouses and on Capitol Hill, the reality of soaring jury awards, insurance premiums and seemingly out-of-control...
Health-care Veteran Ruse Joins OHIC Board
Jul 8 2004 // Columbus, Ohio-based medical liability insurer OHIC Insurance Co. named former health-care administrator Bill Ruse to its board of directors. Ruse retired as president of the Blanchard Valley Health Association in 2001...
