All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 11 2019 // A year after Hurricane Michael, the Florida county hardest hit by the Category 5 storm is still in crisis: Thousands in Bay County are homeless, medical care and housing are at a premium, domestic violence has become a...
Oct 8 2019 // Approximately 25 percent 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 today in the Journal of the American Medical...
Oct 7 2019 // The medical device industry is an expanding market with significant growth forecasted over the next decade. According to KPMG data, global predictions reveal the life sciences sector will grow by more than 5% per year,...
Sep 24 2019 // Risk Strategies, a Boston, Mass.-headquartered, privately held insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has appointed health care industry veteran Brad W. Gabbard as a senior vice president to its national health care...
Sep 16 2019 // U.S. Senators John Kennedy (R-La.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) have introduced legislation to allow active duty service members to sue the military for medical malpractice and negligence.A Supreme Court decision in 1950...
Sep 16 2019 // A medical professional liability insurance provider serving nearly 500 medical professionals in Missouri and Kansas has been placed into rehabilitation after the Kansas Insurance Department (KID) found the company’s...
Sep 12 2019 // By the time Kelly Pfaff got home from driving her son to school that morning, it was too late.Her husband, John, was supposed to be taking their 4-year-old daughter to school. But the girl and the nanny were still at the...
Sep 5 2019 // The state of Iowa and a group of doctors at University Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City will pay a Fairfield woman $2.5 million after she lost both legs to amputation and became paralyzed after what she claimed was a...
Sep 3 2019 // The Kansas insurance commissioner will take supervisory control of a company that provides malpractice insurance to nearly 500 medical professionals in Missouri and Kansas.A Shawnee County judge last week placed Physicians...
Aug 26 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a global leader in insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services, has hired Anthony DellaCroce to its team in New Jersey as an area vice president for the Healthcare Practice,...
Aug 14 2019 // The largest health care provider in northern Nevada says some of its patients’ private information was stored on a thumb drive that’s been missing since June 30.Renown Health said in a letter sent to patients...
Jul 30 2019 // Two recent research papers both point to the significance of diagnostic errors as a source of medical malpractice claims.A peer-reviewed paper published in Diagnosis on July 11 found that inaccurate or delayed diagnoses...
Jul 29 2019 // America’s much-maligned health care system is covering 9 out of 10 people, a fact that hasn’t stopped the 2020 presidential candidates from refighting battles about how to provide coverage, from Bernie...
Jul 12 2019 // Brenda Lundeen went in for routine surgery to relieve heavy periods.What the Overland Park mom and grade schoolteacher got was a nightmare, as a medical mistake caused 194-degree water to pour through a hole in her uterus...
Jul 12 2019 // Mike Jacoby has joined the Dallas-based team of Risk Consulting Partners (RCP) and will lead the firm’s rapidly growing healthcare practice.Jacoby brings to RCP more than 35 years of experience as an innovator and...
Jul 12 2019 // DNA-testing service Vitagene Inc. left thousands of client health reports exposed online for years, the kind of incident that privacy advocates have warned about as gene testing has become increasingly popular.More than...
Jun 26 2019 // While the United States’ stable job market and regulatory environment have kept employee benefits offerings steady, some benefits such as student loan repayment, paternity leave, telecommuting, standing desks and...
Jun 12 2019 // A new survey has found that nearly 62,000 medical errors in Massachusetts in one year cost about $617 million for follow-up care.The Boston Globe reports that the survey released Monday by the Betsy Lehman Center for...
Jun 12 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has added Ward Humphreys as senior vice president to the reinsurance team of its National Health Care Practice. His hiring is part...
Jun 10 2019 // The use of telemedicine may be in its nascent stages within the workers’ compensation system, but the starting line has definitely been crossed with employers and workers’ comp insurers embracing the ability to...