All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2024 // A Chicago health care company and its former owners will pay nearly $2 million to the United States and the States of Illinois and Indiana to resolve a civil lawsuit arising from the submission of false claims to Medicare...
May 29 2024 // One of Colombia’s biggest health insurers will gradually cease operations in the country’s public system to avoid further deterioration in its finances.Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana SA’s public...
May 1 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at re/insurance brokers BMS and Gallagher.A summary of these new hires follows here. BMS Launches Global Healthcare Liability Unit, Led by Wendin From...
Apr 23 2024 // An insurance agency has won another chance at proving a law firm was negligent in defending it in a non-compete dispute with another agency, a dispute it ended up settling for $1.2 million.The Delaware Supreme Court has...
Apr 15 2024 // A Rutland, Massachusetts man was sentenced in federal court in Worcester to conspiring to access a computer system of his former employer – a non-profit substance use and mental health treatment provider that operates...
Mar 28 2024 // Robert Purbeck, also known as “Lifelock,” and “Studmaster,” who hacked into the computer servers of the police department of Newnan, Georgia and a medical clinic in Griffin, Georgia, has pleaded...
Mar 25 2024 // UnitedHealth Group said on Friday its Change Healthcare unit will start to process the medical claims backlog of more than $14 billion as it resumes some software services disrupted by a cyberattack last month.The company...
Mar 13 2024 // QBE has created a Healthcare practice group and has launched a Healthcare Advantage Liability product.The Healthcare practice group will be supported by all regional offices in the UK and aims to provide a more focused...
Feb 16 2024 // Asta, through its third-party managing agency at Lloyd’s, announced the “in-principle” approval of a syndicate-in-a-box (SIAB) to deliver a breakthrough insurance product that aims to accelerate the...
Feb 8 2024 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that claims involving the evolving field of assisted reproductive technologies can be decided using traditional negligence and medical malpractice principles and do not require...
Jan 29 2024 // When the COVID-19 virus spread across the country three years ago, dozens of state legislatures approved statutes that granted health care providers immunity from legal actions brought by people who claimed to have been...
Jan 25 2024 // Connecticut-based Webster Bank has completed the acquisition of Ametros Financial Corp., a firm that administers medical claims settlements.Ametros provides post-settlement medical administration for those receiving funds...
Jan 25 2024 // National specialty insurance brokerage Risk Strategies announced it has acquired Professional Risk Associates, Inc. (PRA), a Virginia-based specialty healthcare insurance agency focused on medical professional...
Jan 19 2024 // When a baseball umpire, well-traveled in college conferences, went to a hospital for X-rays on his surgically repaired ankle in 2015, a hospital attendant pushing the ump’s wheelchair accidentally bumped his foot...
Jan 19 2024 // Alera Group, an insurance and financial services firm in the U.S., announced the acquisition of CLS Healthcare Liability Specialists. Based in North Palm Beach, Florida, CLS provides malpractice coverage for physicians,...
Dec 12 2023 // Insurance company GEICO has filed suit against a New York pharmacy and five medical clinics and their owners alleging they perpetrated a fraudulent scheme under the New York no-fault auto insurance system by submitting...
Nov 22 2023 // The Texas Supreme Court on Friday reversed a Dallas County judge’s decision to sanction an insurer for making an “overbroad” discovery demand, finding that the carrier had a valid interest in the medical...
Oct 19 2023 // Prime Insurance Company Names Schlueter SVP, Healthcare Professional LiabilityPrime Insurance Company, headquartered in Chicago, Ill., named Bart Schlueter as senior vice president and head of healthcare professional...
Oct 2 2023 // Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $49 million as part of a settlement with California prosecutors who say the health care giant illegally disposed of thousands of private medical records, hazardous materials and medical...
Sep 28 2023 // Paramount Healthcare Consultants, LLC, which operates facilities across Texas and Louisiana, and MPD Operators Nazareth Hall, LLC, doing business as Nazareth Living Care Center in El Paso, Texas, violated federal law when...