All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 25 2019 // A King County, Wash. jury has awarded a West Seattle woman nearly $14 million in a medical-malpractice suit against Seattle Children’s Hospital and Children’s University Medical Group.The Seattle Times reports...
Feb 20 2019 // The North Dakota House approved legislation that would expand the list of medical conditions for which residents can use medical marijuana, add health care professionals who can certify patients for the drug and increase...
Feb 14 2019 // A high-profile insurance fraud case on appeal in New York is being closely watched by fraud fighters across the country for the impact the decision will have on no-fault law.The case, Andrew Carothers, M.D., P.C. v....
Feb 12 2019 // Southern courts favor physicians in malpractice lawsuits over facial trauma treatment, while courts in the Midwest favor patients, according to a Rutgers study.The study, which was published in the Journal of Oral and...
Feb 7 2019 // Microsoft Corp. is releasing a service to help health-care companies move vast amounts of patient data to its cloud and connect with other related systems in a bid to offer clinicians, individuals and researchers a more...
Feb 4 2019 // The Kentucky Supreme Court struck down Kentucky’s Medical Review Panels Act in December, which was enacted by the General Assembly in 2017, returning the process of reviewing medical malpractice claims back to the...
Jan 18 2019 // An intensive care doctor ordered “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be...
Jan 17 2019 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff Sawyer has named Frank Mckenna senior vice president and national healthcare practice leader. Mckenna will be responsible for expanding and growing the current Healthcare...
Jan 16 2019 // The Kentucky Supreme Court struck down last month Kentucky’s Medical Review Panels Act, which was enacted by the General Assembly in 2017, returning the process of reviewing medical malpractice claims back to the...
Jan 11 2019 // Ads for prescription drugs appeared 5 million times in just one year, capping a recent surge in U.S. medical marketing, a new analysis found.The advertisements for various medicines showed up on TV, newspapers, online...
Jan 8 2019 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty LLC has acquired Professional Medical Insurance Services (PMIS), headquartered in Houston, with seven other offices across the country.This PMIS medical and malpractice group will...
Nov 19 2018 // U.S. medical professional liability insurers reported an underwriting loss again last year, according to Fitch Ratings in a new report that says the results are drawing more scrutiny around reserves that are shrinking.For...
Nov 16 2018 // The owner, doctor and attorney involved with a medical clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y., have been charged for their alleged participation in a $1 million auto insurance fraud scheme.New York State Attorney General Barbara D....
Nov 13 2018 // Chicago-based ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., has partnered with the Indiana Osteopathic Association (IOA) and the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association (POMA) on a medical professional liability insurance...
Nov 5 2018 // President Donald Trump has signed legislation that will protect sports medicine professionals who travel with sports teams by ensuring that their license and liability insurance remains in effect even when they cross state...
Nov 2 2018 // ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., a medical professional liability insurance provider, is expanding into Ohio after state regulators there granted the company admitted status.ISMIE said it is now able to offer Ohio physicians,...
Oct 19 2018 // Cook County’s board of commissioners have voted for a nearly $4 million settlement of a malpractice lawsuit filed after an alleged botched heart surgery at Chicago’s Stroger Hospital.Lawyers for Jaime Flores...
Oct 10 2018 // President Donald Trump has signed legislation that will protect sports medicine professionals who travel with sports teams by ensuring that their license and liability insurance remains in effect even when they cross state...
Oct 2 2018 // For years, Spyros Panos seemed like a successful orthopedic surgeon, seeing dozens of patients a day and bringing in millions of dollars in fees for his suburban New York medical group.In fact, he was inflating charges and...
Sep 18 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Tuesday filed an insurance-fraud complaint in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of the state against AbbVie Inc. alleging the company gave illegal kickbacks to...