All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2004 // Los Angeles-based SCPIE Holdings Inc., a provider of healthcare liability insurance, reported results for its fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 31, 2003. The company also announced that its Board of Directors has...
Mar 8 2004 // The Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Health Care (CARH), an organization of health care providers and others dedicated to medical liability reform, recently praised new efforts by U.S. Senate leaders to bring balance...
Mar 8 2004 // A proposed constitutional amendment to limit damage awards for medical malpractice died in the Wyoming legislature, but other cost-saving measures for doctors and insurance companies remain on the table.The other measures...
Mar 5 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. announced its support for House Bill 5204 and Senate Bill 60 when it recently provided written testimony to the Insurance and Real Estate Committee and the Program...
Mar 4 2004 // More than a thousand doctors in rural communities throughout Oregon are going to see reductions of up to eighty percent in their medical professional liability insurance costs this quarter as a result of a state...
Mar 3 2004 // Sierra Military Health Services Inc. (SMHS), a subsidiary of Sierra Health Services Inc., announced that it has entered into a binding commitment with Health Net Federal Services (Health Net) of Rancho Cordova, California,...
Mar 2 2004 // After deliberating whether it would hurt already injured patients and not lower health care costs, opponents of a measure that would limit damages in malpractice suits failed to strip the controversial provision from a...
Mar 2 2004 // On Tuesday, the American Insurance Association (AIA) testified before the Maryland Senate Finance Committee in support of critical workers’ compensation legislation that would reportedly enable Maryland – like...
Feb 27 2004 // A proposed constitutional amendment to limit damage awards for medical malpractice is dead, but other cost-saving measures for doctors and insurance companies remain on the table.The other measures include reimbursing...
Feb 25 2004 // Investigators with Florida’s Department of Financial Services, Division of Insurance Fraud, seized hundreds of records from a medical clinic and arrested the three owners on charges of organized scheme to defraud,...
Feb 25 2004 // In a statement attributed to J. James Rohack, MD, chair-elect of the American Medical Association Board of Trustees, the AMA expressed its support for medical liability reform in Oklahoma.“The American Medical...
Feb 24 2004 // Pediatricians Insurance Risk Retention Group of America (PIRRGA), a physician-owned and governed medical malpractice insurance company, has received notification of registration from the Florida Office of Insurance...
Feb 23 2004 // Steve Woods, MD, Overlake Hospital OBGYN and partner in a private medical practice, along with several of his Overlake Hospital and Evergreen Hospital colleagues, met in Olympia, Wash., recently to talk to King County...
Feb 23 2004 // Washington native Mike Kreidler was elected to the office of Insurance Commissioner in November 2000, taking office in January 2001. Before becoming Insurance Commissioner, Kreidler enjoyed a varied political career. He...
Feb 18 2004 // The Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Health Care (CARH), an organization of health care providers and others dedicated to medical liability reform, this week praised new efforts by U.S. Senate leaders to bring balance...
Feb 12 2004 // Laguna Hills, Calif.-based The Doctors Insurance Agency representing The Doctors Company (TDC), the nation’s largest doctor-owned professional liability insurance company, has announced the changing of its name from...
Feb 12 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America noted that members of the Pennsylvania Senate’s Judiciary Committee passed two bills on Tuesday that will allow the full Senate to debate reforms to the...
Feb 11 2004 // The New York Senate’s Standing Committee on Insurance, heard from a number of interested parties, including various industry groups, regarding growing concerns about insurance fraud, particularly staged accidents,...
Feb 9 2004 // He came to Washington, D.C., with a background steeped in medicine.U.S. Senate Majority Leader and Tennessee Republican Bill Frist has known first-hand the impact of the nation’s medical malpractice crisis and how it...
Feb 9 2004 // He came to Washington, D.C., with a background steeped in medicine.U.S. Senate Majority Leader and Tennessee Republican Bill Frist has known first-hand the impact of the nation’s medical malpractice crisis and how it...