All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 20 2003 // Florida’s top business associations demanded that state legislators fix the broken medical liability system, saying it is one of the key reasons healthcare costs are skyrocketing for employers and workers. According...
Feb 14 2003 // American Physicians Capital Inc. reported a net operating loss of $1.1 million, or 12 cents per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2002, compared to a net operating loss of $14.5 million, or $1.38 per diluted share,...
Feb 13 2003 // The Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a joint hearing this week on “Patient Access Crisis: The Role of Medical Litigation.” Judiciary Chairman Orrin...
Feb 13 2003 // Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and eight other Senate Democrats have introduced a bill that would strip medical liability insurers of their immunity to anti-trust laws.The Medical Malpractice Act of 2003 (S. 352) would amend...
Feb 11 2003 // Tennessee Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance Paula A. Flowers briefed the state’s House of Representatives on the department’s placement of three malpractice insurance reciprocals into receivership.“I...
Feb 11 2003 // The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) praised the efforts of Congressmen Jim Greenwood (R-Erwinna) and John Murtha (D-Johnstown) for reintroducing the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low Cost,...
Feb 10 2003 // Rodger Lawson, president of the Alliance of American Insurers, has urged Congress to enact meaningful medical malpractice liability reforms, in order to avert a growing crisis. Lawson called the medical malpractice reform...
Feb 5 2003 // The Coalition to Heal Healthcare in Florida, which includes Florida’s hospitals, doctors and major business groups, applauded the final report of a task force studying the state’s medical liability crisis,...
Feb 4 2003 // Nearly 300 physicians from across Washington state met in Olympia to urge legislators to pass medical liability reform recently.Washington physicians, reeling from rapidly increasing medical malpractice premiums, are...
Feb 3 2003 // Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Paula A. Flowers announced that three malpractice insurers—Doctors Insurance Reciprocal RRG, American National Lawyers Insurance Reciprocal RRG and the Reciprocal Alliance RRG—were...
Jan 30 2003 // Recent and planned walkouts by surgeons protesting escalating malpractice insurance costs is gaining attention, however Fitch Ratings reports it is too early to tell what, if any, impact these walkouts may have on...
Jan 30 2003 // The Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania (HCWP) applauded the remarks made by President Bush in his State of the Union address Tuesday night on medical malpractice reform, noting that it had pushed the issue into the...
Jan 21 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers praised the efforts of West Virginia’s House of Representatives in passing a medical malpractice insurance reform bill last week as a “step in the right direction,” and...
Jan 17 2003 // Rodger Lawson, president of the Alliance of American Insurers, has urged Congress to enact meaningful medical malpractice liability reforms, in order to avert a growing crisis fed, in part, by the growing number and size...
Jan 17 2003 // Pennsylvania’s Governor Schweiker and The Hospital & Healthsystem Association lined up behind the state’s doctors in supporting President Bush’s call for comprehensive reforms the nation’s...
Jan 16 2003 // The nation’s medical malpractice insurance crisis is threatening healthcare costs and access to care, according to a new survey of the 42 Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) companies.Blue Plans believe that because of...
Jan 16 2003 // Following remarks by President Bush, Thursday in Scranton, Pa., where he addressed the medical malpractice insurance crisis sweeping the nation, a letter was forwarded to the White House from a group of doctors. January...
Jan 13 2003 // The work stoppage by a number of West Virginia surgeons protesting the high cost of medical malpractice insurance showed signs of easing, as several doctors indicated they would return to their posts.The decision comes at...
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently.According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Jan 13 2003 // Will medical malpractice problems initiate the industry’s crisis for 2003 in the way that mold mania swept Texas and many other states in 2002, creating havoc in the homeowners insurance market? If you read the...