All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2018 // A Passaic County, N.J., pain management doctor has been charged with first-degree conspiracy and money laundering for allegedly submitting more than $4.4 million in fraudulent bills for service to insurance companies that...
Mar 13 2018 // Florida’s number one Judicial Hellhole ranking for 2017 from the American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF) is unlikely to be an achievement the state will celebrate any time soon. Quite the opposite, according to...
Mar 9 2018 // Hiscox has added new coverages to its insurance policy for U.S. businesses in the mental health industry. Hiscox PRO Outpatient Mental Healthcare Professional Liability offers a variety of specialized benefits for mental...
Mar 7 2018 // Getting sued is not an uncommon event for physicians. More than a third of physicians (34 percent) have had a claim filed against them at some point in their careers.Also, according to research from the American Medical...
Feb 12 2018 // An Illinois jury’s medical malpractice award has been slashed by $15 million because the injured woman died the day before the 2015 trial verdict.The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reports Illinois’ 1st District...
Feb 9 2018 // Following up on a big change made last year to Kentucky’s medical malpractice system, state lawmakers are considering a measure that would further alter the process of pursuing lawsuits claiming medical error or...
Feb 5 2018 // Male rats exposed to very high levels of the kind of radiation emitted by cellphones developed tumors in the tissues around their hearts, according to a draft report by U.S. government researchers on the potential health...
Jan 23 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has added Philip Westphal to its commercial property/casualty team in Sacramento, Calif., as a risk advisor/broker in the healthcare practice. Westphal will report to Tom McCready,...
Jan 22 2018 // A state district judge has ruled as unconstitutional North Dakota’s law limiting damages in medical malpractice cases.The Bismarck Tribune reports the ruling came in a case involving a Fort Yates woman who suffered a...
Jan 17 2018 // Ascent Underwriting, a niche-product managing general agent, has launched a professional liability product for allied health practitioners and facilities in the U.S.Ascent’s new Allied Health product includes a...
Jan 12 2018 // A Massachusetts radiology lab says it has lost a portable hard drive that may contain the personal information and X-ray images of almost 9,400 patients. Charles River Medical Associates, based in Framingham, Mass., mailed...
Jan 11 2018 // A state district judge has ruled that North Dakota’s law limiting damages in medical malpractice cases is unconstitutional.The Bismarck Tribune reports the ruling came in a case involving a Fort Yates woman who...
Jan 10 2018 // Billionaire Ira Rennert has filed a $214 million malpractice lawsuit against his former law firm, after a jury found him liable for looting his magnesium company to build a huge mansion in New York’s Hamptons.Renco...
Dec 28 2017 // Florida doctors are rarely punished by state regulators even after they are sued for malpractice according to a newspaper report.The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported last month that the Florida Department of Health...
Dec 27 2017 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto Co.’s top-selling weed killer Roundup, is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans, contradicting a World Health...
Dec 22 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended 16 more medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year...
Dec 21 2017 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has released the 2017 Health Care Provider Performance Based Oversight (PBO) assessment results.Health care providers were assessed on their...
Dec 13 2017 // Austin, Texas-based Capson Physicians Insurance Co. announced it is providing in-house attorneys, rather than adjusters, to help facilitate claims for insureds.According to Capson Physicians Insurance President and Founder...
Dec 6 2017 // AccentCare Inc., a home healthcare company headquartered in Dallas, has agreed to pay $25,000 and provide other significant relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Dec 5 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended 21 more medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ compensation system, bringing the total number of providers suspended...