Robert Kincaid, a patient suffering from schizophrenia, was lying on the floor in a dayroom at Western State Hospital in Washington, choking on a piece of orange for almost eight minutes before staff members stopped to help him, according to …
An Evansville, Ind., hospital has informed about 4,400 patients that hackers may have stolen their personal information during an attack on hospital employees’ email accounts. St. Mary’s Medical Center spokesman Randy Capehart says the hackers accessed emails that contained names, …
Ryan Specialty Group’s (RSG) Sapphire Blue and Lloyd’s Catlin Underwriting Agencies Ltd. have launched a new liability insurance program specifically for U.S. small rural and specialty hospitals. The program features claims management processing and a risk management component provided by …
ACE USA’s Medical Risk Group has introduced a range of physician professional liability insurance products and coverage options in support of hospitals and healthcare facilities for their employed physicians, and their owned or affiliated medical groups. Product offerings include companion …
A Waterloo, Iowa, hospital is close to finalizing a $2 million class-action lawsuit that compensates African-Americans who say they were denied jobs and promotions because of their race. Allen Hospital will pay 35 individuals a total of about $1 million …
ProAssurance Corp., a specialty writer of professional liability insurance, and the Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. (CAP) are partnering to offer a new liability protection product, CAPAssurance, for hospitals and other medical facilities in California. CAPAssurance will use the same …
IronHealth, the specialty healthcare unit of Ironshore Inc., has introduced IronMed NC, a hybrid medical professional liability product that will be available through a partnership with Medical Mutual Insurance Company (MMIC) of North Carolina. The new product has been designed …
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has announced federal mortgage insurance approval that will allow construction to begin on a full-service hospital in New Orleans East — one of the areas devastated by flooding in 2005 when levees failed during Hurricane …
Federal prosecutors say a Texas-based hospital system has paid millions of dollars to settle a false claims lawsuit. Christus Spohn Health System Corp. has paid the United States more than $5 million to settle allegations regarding violations of the False …
Indiana’s hospital boards and trial lawyers are closely monitoring a lawsuit that accuses the state’s largest hospital group of charging uninsured patients more for treatment than insured patients. The case, set for May 10 arguments before the Indiana Supreme Court, …
