All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 13 2015 // NORCAL Mutual Insurance Co., a medical professional liability insurance provider, is now offering coverage to physicians and healthcare professionals in Oregon with protection for certain data breaches, cyber liability and...
May 11 2015 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed a measure capping some damage awards in medical malpractices cases, three years after the state’s Supreme Court struck down similar limits as unconstitutional.“This bipartisan...
May 7 2015 // A rise in cyber attacks against doctors and hospitals is costing the U.S. healthcare system $6 billion a year as organized criminals who once targeted retailers and financial firms increasingly go after medical records,...
May 6 2015 // Constellation, a mutual holding company, announced that Little Rock-based medical professional liability insurance provider, Arkansas Mutual Insurance Co., is joining its family of companies.Arkansas Mutual will be the...
May 4 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud has arrested Roxana Suarez La Rosa on charges related to PIP (personal injury protection) fraud. In 2012, the Saint Jose Injury Center in...
May 4 2015 // A measure to reinstate limits on lawsuit awards for pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases is heading to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s desk three years after the state Supreme Court overturned lower caps. The...
Apr 30 2015 // Playboy Enterprises Inc. claims Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP committed malpractice by not advising it to settle a retaliatory-firing lawsuit.The case is anything but salacious. Catherine Zulfer initially sued...
Apr 30 2015 // Beazley Group has hired a former Hiscox executive to help expand its miscellaneous medical insurance capabilities.Christopher Dunlavy will be based in Beazley’s Atlanta office. The miscellaneous medical team...
Apr 23 2015 // A measure to reinstate limits on lawsuit awards for pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases is heading to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s desk three years after the state Supreme Court overturned lower caps.The...
Apr 21 2015 // ACE Group has introduced four new medical liability coverage endorsements, designed to provide more comprehensive protection to the expanding long term care healthcare sector.The new endorsements include: media event...
Apr 9 2015 // The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that an insurer created by the Legislature does not have to make its records public.The decision ends a two-year legal battle between the Star Tribune and the Minnesota Joint...
Apr 8 2015 // A potentially hardening market and a paradigm shift in how healthcare is delivered are just two issues Sarah Pacini has had to face since her first day on the job.Pacini is CEO of Los Angeles, Calif.-based Cooperative of...
Apr 6 2015 // An Arapahoe County, Colo. jury has handed down a $17.8 million malpractice judgment against Children’s Hospital Colorado after finding the hospital’s staff was responsible for giving the wrong dose of...
Apr 2 2015 // Los Angeles County has agreed to pay $4.5 million to a man left paralyzed after treatment at County/USC Medical Center.The Los Angeles Times reported the Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday in favor of the settlement with...
Apr 1 2015 // Medical malpractice claims hit a record low last year in Wisconsin, according to the Director of State Courts.The number of medical malpractice lawsuits fell to 84 last year from 140 in 2013. There were 294 suits filed in...
Mar 24 2015 // Medical malpractice claims hit a record low last year in Wisconsin, according to the Director of State Courts.The number of medical malpractice lawsuits fell to 84 last year from 140 in 2013. There were 294 suits filed in...
Mar 23 2015 // ACE Group has launched an enhanced clinical trials liability proposition for UK companies, which provides life science companies with specialist insurance for clinical trials programs conducted anywhere in the world.With...
Mar 18 2015 // He’s only a few weeks into official retirement, but James L. Weidner is already looking back fondly at the last 20 years as chief executive officer of Cooperative of American Physicians.“It was just an...
Mar 11 2015 // The Missouri Senate has moved forward a measure that would reinstate limits on noneconomic awards in medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors or hospitals.The Senate gave initial approval Tuesday to limits on...
Mar 10 2015 // Buying homes, getting jobs and borrowing money will be easier after an agreement by the three biggest U.S. consumer credit reporting services with New York.“This is huge,” Chi Chi Wu, an attorney at...