All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 3 2002 // The International Risk Management Institute (IRMI) has issued a statement supporting the contentions of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association(PaTLA) that the insurance industry’s own business practices are...
Jan 3 2002 // New York State Insurance Superintendent Gregory V. Serio announced a major reform package for the State’s automobile no-fault insurance arbitration program, designed to expedite settlement of insurance disputes,...
Dec 31 2001 // Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker backed up his call for the reform of the state’s medical malpractice insurance system (See IJ Website, Dec.27) with an executive order to delay collection of the surcharge for the...
Dec 27 2001 // Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker called on the General Assembly to adopt strong reforms to curb the skyrocketing costs of medical-malpractice insurance and to address the diminishing availability of insurance. He also...
Dec 19 2001 // Connecticut-based W.R. Berkley Corp. announced it will enter the excess medical malpractice market with the formation of Berkley Medical Excess Underwriters, LLC., based in St. Louis, Missouri, which will underwrite on...
Dec 13 2001 // The St. Paul Companies said it would move out of its money-losing medical malpractice business and would quit or trim some other business lines, cutting an unspecified number of jobs and taking pretax charges of $900...
Dec 3 2001 // The West Virginia Senate is considering legislation, tabled by the Judiciary Committee as part of a tort reform bill, to ban claims by third parties against medical malpractice insurers for delays or settlement refusals...
Oct 16 2001 // Requiring property/casualty insurers to have medical treatment claims reviewed by third party examiners is unnecessary, counterproductive and could raise the cost of insurance for Iowa consumers, according to the...
Sep 11 2001 // No challenge is more intriguing to Colorado residents than the “Fourteeners”–a group of 55 mountains peaks all in Colorado and all higher than 14,000 feet above sea level. A team from Baetis Inc.,...
Sep 10 2001 // By Catherine TapiaThis is the second installation of a two-part series dealing with the rising issue of toxic mold claims, which continues its exploration of specific mold-related lawsuits in California: determining...
Sep 10 2001 // Richard L. Polizzi, president of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc., is sponsoring a free seminar for “Professional Liability for the Healthcare Industry.” Agents can earn three continuing...
Sep 10 2001 // Editor’s Note: This is the second installation of a two-part series dealing with the rising issue of toxic mold claims. See IJ, Aug. 27, 2001, for Part I.Part II Determining causation A major aspect of the ongoing...
Aug 31 2001 // San Diego-based brokerage firm Barney & Barney LLC and Salu Inc. entered into an agreement to provide Salu’s physician-specialist members with medical malpractice insurance coverage at competitive prices...
Aug 20 2001 // I find that nursing homes are in a serious crisis in trying to obtain medical liability coverage,” Texas Insurance Commissioner José Montemayor said in February, as he announced the Texas Department of Insurance...
Jul 23 2001 // The St. Paul Companies heralded a July 12 Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court ruling that allows the company to continue providing medical liability and other commercial insurance products and services to new customers in...
Jul 9 2001 // The Missouri Insurance Department has adopted an emergency consumer privacy regulation containing a third party claimant provision but excluding health and workers’ compensation insurance. National Association of...
Jun 21 2001 // The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) hailed the passage of Senate Bill 556, “which fully privatizes the state’s medical professional liability system.” The reform measure...
Jun 18 2001 // Decreases in investment income, coupled with increases in the severity of lawsuits and the rising costs of reinsurance, are likely to make medical malpractice a difficult market in the near future, according to Conning...
Jun 11 2001 // Decreases in investment income, coupled with increases in the severity of lawsuits and the rising costs of reinsurance, are likely to make medical malpractice a difficult market in the near future, according to Conning...
May 24 2001 // The Pennsylvania Medical Society and The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) released a joint statement outlining a set of principles and an action plan for reforming the medical professional...