All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 13 2003 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor recently submitted the Biennial Report, required under Section 32.022 of the Insurance Code, to Texas legislators suggesting needed changes in laws relating to insurance...
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 10 2003 // A new book on medical malpractice in Texas, by Fort Worth attorney Dan Barrett, claims Republicans are discriminating against the elderly and the poor in bills to be considered in the upcoming legislative session.According...
Jan 8 2003 // Kentucky Department of Insurance (DOI) Commissioner Janie A. Miller announced a series of recommendations to address the medical malpractice insurance market in Kentucky. The recommendations were developed after months of...
Jan 8 2003 // The West Virginia State Legislature has issued a report finding that imposing caps on damages in medical malpractice lawsuits will not reduce insurance rates for physicians, at least in the near future.Following the airing...
Jan 6 2003 // Capital BlueCross President and CEO James Mead issued a statement supporting Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Ed Rendell’s proposed health insurance reserve tax to help alleviate the state’s medical malpractice...
Jan 2 2003 // Floridians’ ability to obtain healthcare services is being disrupted statewide as hospitals are forced to close units or reduce services due to the medical liability insurance crisis, new information shows.The...
Dec 25 2002 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken announced that two new medical-malpractice insurance entities—Pennsylvania Health Providers Reciprocal Exchange of Harrisburg and United Central PA Reciprocal Risk...
Dec 20 2002 // During a visit to the Rio Grande Valley, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced plans to declare medical malpractice reform an emergency issue when the 78th Texas Legislature convenes in January. He has previously said that...
Dec 19 2002 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling stating that insurers can recoup workers’ compensation payments from malpractice suit proceeds made to injured employees who sue their lawyers for mishandling their...
Dec 18 2002 // The medical liability insurance crisis in Florida will cause the state’s medical system to meltdown, unless a legislative fix is implemented soon, according to a hospital executive who is a member of the Coalition to...
Dec 10 2002 // Conventus Inter-Insurance Exchange, a Woodbridge, N.J.-based medical malpractice insurance company owned and governed by physicians, announced that the New Jersey Banking and Insurance Department has issued it a...
Dec 2 2002 // Pa. Gov. Calls for Postponement of MCARE to Allay Med-Mal CrisisPennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker announced he has directed Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken to request a postponement of Medical Care Availability and...
Nov 26 2002 // Florida Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher announced that Michael E. Rock of Orlando, was arrested on charges of soliciting thousands of Florida doctors to purchase fraudulent medical malpractice...
Nov 25 2002 // A study conducted on behalf of the Florida Hospital Association (FHA) shows that Florida faces a “bleak” medical liability crisis, with doctors facing more claims and liability losses, and paying substantially...
Nov 11 2002 // For most law firms, 2002 and 2003 will be challenging years in respect to securing professional liability insurance. The “new market” is similar to that of the mid-’80s and has caused consolidation of...
Nov 4 2002 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken announced that at the request of Gov. Mark Schweiker, the state insurance department has approved a filing by the Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting...
Oct 30 2002 // Rising medical-malpractice insurance premiums for doctors and hospitals are adding to already budget-busting medical-cost inflation, according to the special report, “The Impact of the Med-Mal Insurance Crisis on...
Oct 23 2002 // A new poll commissioned by the The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) and the Pennsylvania Medical Society has found that four out of 5 Pennsylvanians consider malpractice jury awards “out...
Oct 18 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers called a bill signed into law by Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker (R) Oct. 17 a “huge victory” in the fight to reel in runaway malpractice awards.The bill (SB 138), which...