Travelers has unveiled new property coverages through its IndustryEdge product for healthcare organizations. New coverages include: Ordinance or Law – Communicable Disease Contamination Coverage – This coverage pays the costs incurred to clean up and remove communicable disease contamination from …
Allied World Assurance Co. has introduced Allied World U.S.’s new ForceField management liability package product for U.S. Healthcare Organizations. The ForceField Package Policy for Healthcare Organizations combines a single application and a single underwriter with multiple coverage components (directors & …
Medical professional liability insurer Medical Protective is now offering MedPro CyberShield, a cyber liability coverage product at no additional charge to policyholders. The company will be adding MedPro CyberShield coverage to all of its insured physicians’ and surgeons’ policies (including …
MMIC Insurance, Inc. has launched data privacy insurance coverage for the healthcare community and has partnered with Beazley Group, Ltd. to offer the coverage. Beazley has developed Beazley Breach Response and tailored it to the needs of the healthcare industry. …
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit in Mississippi that challenges part of the Obama administration’s health care law, but he is giving the plaintiffs 30 days to make changes to their complaint. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett ruled that …
Back when the big health care law was little more than a dream, a prominent figure spoke out against the idea of forcing people to get health insurance. He said that would be like solving homelessness by passing a law …
President Barack Obama’s fellow Democrats in the U.S. Senate blocked a Republican bid Wednesday to repeal his healthcare overhaul, likely leaving the fate of the year-old law up to the federal courts. The Senate rejected the attempted repeal on a …
The U.S. Senate Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to rescind a measure in last year’s healthcare law that expands business transaction reporting requirements to the Internal Revenue Service. Bowing to pressure from small business groups who say the new reporting requirements will …
Most Americans do not want Congress to block funding for various new healthcare measures even as the nation remains split on the sweeping overhaul passed last year, a poll published Tuesday found. More than half of those surveyed — 62 …
True or false: States suing to overturn core requirements of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul are refusing to carry out the law. If you said ‘true,” you’d be wrong. Republican state legislators and governors are working on how to …
