All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 21 2020 // Healthcare liability insurer ProAssurance Corp. has agreed to acquire medical professional liability insurer NORCAL Mutual Insurance Co. following NORCAL’s demutualization in a $450 million transaction.Based on...
Feb 10 2020 // White River Health System Inc., a provider of health care services throughout North Central Arkansas, has been sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for age discrimination.In a lawsuit filed on...
Feb 9 2020 // BEIJING, Feb 10 — An advance team of international experts led by the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for Beijing to help investigate China’s coronavirus epidemic, which authorities said on Monday had...
Feb 6 2020 // Hackers have finally done what bond issuers may have feared most from cyber criminals.A ransomware attack on Pleasant Valley Hospital in West Virginia was partly responsible for the hospital’s breach of its covenant...
Jan 28 2020 // A southeastern Michigan hospital system said that a now-fired employee accessed and shared what was supposed to be protected personal and health information of more than 1,000 patients with someone affiliated with a...
Jan 21 2020 // China’s mysterious respiratory virus has caused six deaths and infected a number of medical workers, a sign the outbreak has entered a new phase with the illness spreading from person to person.Health-care workers...
Jan 15 2020 // How to prevent surprise medical billing from out-of-network health care providers will be on the docket for Oklahoma lawmakers during this year’s legislative session.The issue was taken up during the 2019 session and...
Jan 10 2020 // A federal judge declined for now to compel a Michigan-based health system to advance legal costs for a doctor’s defense against murder charges in the deaths of 25 Ohio hospital patients.U.S. District Judge George...
Jan 3 2020 // In late December, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) released the 2019 Health Care Provider Performance Based Oversight (PBO) assessment.For 2019, health care providers were...
Dec 31 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...
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...