All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2016 // For the 2017 accident year, health care systems will face a complex environment of emerging risks that will have a direct impact on workers’ compensation, according to analysts at Aon Global Risk Consulting.The risk...
Sep 19 2016 // Hiscox has combined the services of its healthcare and cyber underwriters to launch Healthcare Threat Protect to coordinate with a hospital’s professional and general liability as well as their growing cyber...
Sep 15 2016 // Congress has advanced legislation to clarify that sports doctors’ medical malpractice insurance should follow them when they travel out of state with their teams.The House of Representatives this week approved the...
Sep 13 2016 // A dozen states still use no-fault auto insurance to cover the medical expenses of crash victims.Michigan House members returned to work last week to decide whether they’ll give the state’s motorists a break on...
Sep 9 2016 // QBE North America, has named Cynthia Oard as senior vice president, underwriting leader for Healthcare. Oard will will set the underwriting strategy across all major Healthcare segments including Hospitals, Physicians,...
Sep 6 2016 // State public health officials say preventable medical errors reported by full-service Massachusetts hospitals jumped 60 percent last year, but attributed the rise in large part to a problem at a single hospital. The...
Aug 29 2016 // An Arkansas judge has ruled the hospital where a TV anchor died can’t be blamed for the wrongdoing of two former hospital workers who illegally looked at her medical records after she was hospitalized.The Arkansas...
Aug 26 2016 // State public health officials say preventable medical errors reported by full-service Massachusetts hospitals jumped 60 percent last year, but attributed the rise in large part to a problem at a single hospital. The...
Aug 26 2016 // Their son is gone.Luke Beardemphl, a standout Tacoma, Washington soccer player during his years at Stadium High School, died last year at 24, following a seven-year battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But Luke’s...
Aug 22 2016 // The family of a New York man who died in the University of Vermont Medical Center’s emergency room in February has filed a lawsuit against the hospital claiming malpractice.The Burlington Free Press reported the...
Aug 16 2016 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co. (BHSI) and Tego Insurance announced they have entered into an exclusive underwriting agreement to provide medical indemnity insurance to medical practitioners in...
Aug 8 2016 // A federal judge rejected PricewaterhouseCoopers’ bid to dismiss a $1 billion lawsuit accusing the accounting firm of professional malpractice for helping cause the October 2011 bankruptcy of MF Global Holdings Ltd, a...
Jul 22 2016 // Patients who filed medical malpractice claims against Detroit-area oncologist Farid Fata and three Michigan hospitals will receive settlements totaling $8 million.The settlements were approved July 20 in Oakland County...
Jul 22 2016 // Law firms have seen an increase in the frequency of malpractice claims, which are becoming more costly to defend and could cause lasting reputational damage, according to a new study by insurance broker Ames & Gough....
Jul 18 2016 // Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary National Indemnity Co. is acquiring Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Co. of New York for an undisclosed price.The deal comes as the insurer completes its conversation from a mutual company...
Jul 14 2016 // A.M. Besthas upgraded the financial strength rating to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating to “a” from “a-” of Preferred Physicians Medical Risk Retention Group Inc....
Jun 29 2016 // The Oakland City Council in California voted unanimously to kill a plan to use a proposed marine terminal to transport Utah coal to Asia, calling such shipments public health and safety hazards. Backers argued the project...
Jun 21 2016 // The Supreme Court is supposed to take appellate cases to make the law clearer. Last week’s opinion on healthcare fraud had the opposite effect. Instead of spelling out exactly when a misrepresentation in healthcare...
Jun 20 2016 // Are insurance brokers experiencing “market fatigue” in the medical professional liability line of insurance right now?Could be, according to Daniel Nash, senior vice president of Field Operations and Business...
Jun 17 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed some limits on the kind of fraud claims that can be brought against federal contractors in a case involving a suit against one of America’s largest hospital operators over a...