All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 4 2003 // The Allstate Insurance Company, Encompass Insurance and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company on Wednesday filed a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) action in the Supreme Court of New York against 74...
Dec 3 2003 // Score one for the industry! Liberty Mutual Group and MetLife Auto & Home announced settlements of around $2 million – in their favor- in a multi-million dollar insurance fraud suit against attorneys and medical...
Dec 3 2003 // Ohio Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin testified today before the state’s House Insurance Committee to advocate for changes that would protect $12 million for medical malpractice initiatives and provide the...
Dec 2 2003 // A.M. Best Co. has commented on the financial strength rating of B+ (Very Good) of Sierra Health Services Inc.’s HMO and health insurance entities. A.M. Best’s comments follow Sierra’s announcement of the...
Dec 1 2003 // In a speech at a Republican fundraiser last week, President George W. Bush reaffirmed his commitment to passing federal medical liability reform legislation.“For the sake of our health care system, we need to cut...
Nov 28 2003 // With medical malpractice reform reportedly unlikely at the federal level and in many crisis states, insurers unable to make a profit and coverage for doctors unaffordable, new ways are needed to manage the risk, panelists...
Nov 26 2003 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell has apparently thrown in the towel on reforming the state’s medical malpractice insurance crisis this year, provoking an angry reaction from the medical community.He announced...
Nov 26 2003 // Sierra Health Services Inc. announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its workers’ compensation subsidiary, California Indemnity Insurance Co. Inc. (CIIC) to Folksamerica Holdings Co. Inc....
Nov 25 2003 // Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Commissioner Jose Montemayor has rejected rate hikes requested by the Texas Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting Association, also known as the Joint Underwriting Association...
Nov 25 2003 // Sierra Health Services Inc. announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its workers’ compensation subsidiary, California Indemnity Insurance Co. Inc. (CIIC) to Folksamerica Holdings Co. Inc....
Nov 24 2003 // Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Commissioner Jose Montemayor has rejected rate hikes requested by the Texas Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting Association, also known as the Joint Underwriting Association...
Nov 20 2003 // Despite the passage in September of Proposition 12, which approved a legislative measure designed to lower malpractice insurance rates for doctors, at least two of the five major carriers providing that coverage in Texas...
Nov 13 2003 // SCPIE Holdings Inc., a provider of healthcare liability insurance, reported results for its third quarter and nine months ended Sept. 30, 2003.For the 2003 third quarter, SCPIE reported a net loss of $14.8 million, or...
Nov 13 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a former Bergen County chiropractor previously convicted of insurance fraud has pleaded guilty to additional charges, including Health Care Claims Fraud for...
Nov 3 2003 // alifornia Congressman David Dreier (R- San Dimas) is just a little busy these days. Along with representing Californians in the 26th District and being unanimously selected in 2001 by his California colleagues to chair the...
Oct 29 2003 // A Wisconsin Assembly bill that would prohibit insurers from using credit information in rating or underwriting auto or homeowners insurance would undermine the state’s stable insurance market and could increase...
Oct 29 2003 // Las Vegas-based Sierra Health Services Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the company to purchase up to an additional 3 million shares of its common stock. On Jan. 7, 2003, the company announced that...
Oct 10 2003 // Healthcare Underwriters Group of Florida (HUGFL), a doctor-owned, non-assessable, medical liability insurance company, reported that the company is accepting applications from licensed physicians throughout...
Oct 9 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an East Orange mother and son were sentenced for their reported participation in an organized scheme to illegally obtain valid police accident reports in order to...
Oct 9 2003 // To address the increased difficulty health practitioners are having obtaining liability insurance, Seattle-based Kibble & Prentice has expanded its medical liability insurance practice. To this end, Philip Dyer has...