All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 24 2019 // A Phoenix, Ariz.-based health provider has agreed to settle a lawsuit over a computer data breach that may have compromised health and personal data of about 3 million patients, employees, health insurance customers and...
Dec 23 2019 // A Houston medical facility was ordered to pay $30,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to workers’ compensation fraud in a Travis County District Court.The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
Dec 23 2019 // One of Northern California’s largest health systems will pay $575 million to settle claims that it used anti-competitive practices to bump up costs for patients, the state’s attorney general said last week,...
Dec 20 2019 // Massachusetts’ highest court on Monday rejected arguments that consent-to-settle clauses in professional malpractice insurance policies violate public policy.The Supreme Judicial Court sided with CNA subsidiary...
Dec 18 2019 // Fruit smoothies may become the new martini for Wall Street holiday parties.Banking and trading firm BTIG LLC, for example, cut alcohol from its annual employee celebration on Dec. 12 at its New York offices. Instead,...
Dec 16 2019 // Congress is closing in on a deal that could shield patients from surprise medical bills, eliminating a source of frustration for Americans who face unexpected charges from emergency care and other procedures.The question...
Dec 9 2019 // A deadly virus called Nipah carried by bats has already caused human outbreaks across South and South East Asia and has “serious epidemic potential,” global health and infectious disease specialists said on...
Dec 4 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California in a follow-up analysis to its 2018 study that evaluated the potential impact of medical provider fraud enforcement shows indicted providers treated...
Dec 3 2019 // Global reinsurers are stepping up their warnings to life insurer clients about the potential risks of vaping, putting pressure on underwriters to charge certain vapers higher rates than smokers, or even exclude them...
Nov 27 2019 // Marsh, an insurance broker and risk adviser, has hired Ethan Crain as HealthCare practice leader for the Northeast zone. Based in Boston, Mass., Crain reports to Chris Roak, Northeast zone leader. In this newly created...
Nov 8 2019 // A jury awarded $101 million to the mother of a severely brain-damaged boy who sued a Chicago-area hospital for medical malpractice, but an agreement between the parties cut the amount to $50 million, a lawyer...
Nov 6 2019 // It’s November and while I have many reasons to be full of joy this time of year, there are still two events that reduce my joy. In fact, one of them makes me downright upset.The first cannot be helped. It’s a...
Oct 28 2019 // A major Florida health system with six hospitals must pay over $2 million after federal officials determined its HIPAA compliance program was in disarray for years.Federal health officials on Wednesday said they’re...
Oct 25 2019 // Montana hospital officials have confirmed a data breach may have compromised the personal information of about 130,000 medical clinic patients.The Daily Inter Lake reported that Kalispell Regional Healthcare employees were...
Oct 22 2019 // A health system that serves western North Carolina has contacted an undisclosed number of people about a data breach involving its e-commerce website.The Citizen-Times reports Mission Health said it recently...
Oct 21 2019 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICRs) to “bbb+” from “a-” of Kansas Medical Mutual...
Oct 21 2019 // Approximately 25% of spending in the U.S. health care system can be characterized as waste. That’s between $760 billion and $935 billion annually.A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Oct 21 2019 // While most insurance claims are legitimate, studies indicate that 10% or more of all property/casualty insurance claims are fraudulent.In the workers’ compensation industry, combatting fraud can seem like a game of...
Oct 15 2019 // London-based specialty broker Price Forbes has launched a U.S. healthcare practice headed by market veterans Paul Voller and David Fairbank, who are joining from JLT Group.Based out of London the practice will focus on the...
Oct 14 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway health care liability insurance unit MedPro Group has agreed to acquire the healthcare professional liability business of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions effective Oct. 11.The agreement includes hospital...