All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 29 2014 // Two recent studies say a proposition on California’s November ballot to raise the pain and suffering cap for medical malpractice lawsuits will increase medical costs and malpractice premiums.The studies and heavy...
Oct 28 2014 // State leaders in New York and New Jersey are at odds with scientists over Ebola as the states’ governors back 21-day quarantines for medical workers returning from West Africa, while the nation’s top...
Oct 27 2014 // Changing laws to make it more difficult to sue physicians for medical malpractice may not reduce the amount of “defensive medicine” practiced by physicians, according to a new study.Studying the behavior of...
Oct 23 2014 // Specialty insurer RLI Corp. of Peoria, Ill., has launched a new healthcare liability unit, RLI Healthcare, and tapped Scott Ducey, former vice president of the healthcare division at Torus, to lead the new division as vice...
Oct 23 2014 // Freedom Specialty, an arm of Scottsdale Insurance Co., is partnering with healthcare underwriter Pro-Praxis, part of the Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford Group, for a specialized excess healthcare professional liability...
Oct 22 2014 // Millicent Gist, a receptionist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, was surprised to hear her facility was an officially designated hospital for people suspected of having Ebola in New York City.That’s...
Oct 21 2014 // About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in Dallas who had the disease, Texas health officials said.Officials said 43 of 48...
Oct 21 2014 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Corp. has launched a new healthcare liability division, RLI Healthcare, and added Scott Ducey to lead the operation as vice president.RLI will provide liability insurance coverage for targeted risks...
Oct 21 2014 // The United States issued stringent new protocols on Monday for health workers treating Ebola victims, directing medical teams to wear protective gear that leaves no skin or hair exposed to prevent medical workers from...
Oct 17 2014 // Health care providers will be getting $200 million from the state of Pennsylvania in a settlement announced Thursday over litigation about a massive fund set up to help doctors pay malpractice insurance premiums.Gov. Tom...
Oct 15 2014 // A second healthcare worker in Texas tested positive for Ebola after caring for a patient with the deadly viral illness, adding to concern that infection controls at U.S. hospitals aren’t strong enough.The worker at...
Oct 13 2014 // A Texas healthcare worker has tested positive for Ebola even though she wore full protective gear while caring for a hospitalized patient who later died from the virus, health officials said. If the preliminary diagnosis...
Oct 12 2014 // The missteps in Dallas’s handling of the first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States have revealed an uncomfortable reality: state and city plans for handling the deadly virus are based on generic recommendations...
Oct 8 2014 // Salt Lake City, Utah-based The Buckner Co. has named Robert F. Atwell as the firm’s healthcare practice leader. Atwell’s primary focus will be on serving the region’s healthcare community. Atwell has 40...
Oct 7 2014 // Authorities announced that a Brooklyn, New York-based doctor has been found guilty in a no-fault insurance fraud scheme following a two-week jury trial.According to a statement Monday from Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney...
Oct 7 2014 // Potential suits against the Dallas, Texas, hospital that sent home a patient later diagnosed with Ebola face long odds in the face of state medical malpractice laws.Texas tort-reform measures have made it one of the...
Sep 30 2014 // ProAssurance Corp. of Birmingham, Ala., has launched a new suite of excess insurance coverages, ProAssurance Complex Medicine, or ProCxM, for large healthcare facilities and organizations. This new package of coverages and...
Sep 26 2014 // Your medical information is worth 10 times more than your credit card number on the black market.Last month, the FBI warned healthcare providers to guard against cyber attacks after one of the largest U.S. hospital...
Sep 11 2014 // Accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Crowe Horwath must face a lawsuit accusing them of professional malpractice and breach of contract for not catching a fraud that led to the 2009 collapse of Colonial Bank, a...
Sep 3 2014 // Insurance Noodle has launched an integrated facility for allied health services across the United States, bringing together several leading markets via a single online access point. By accessing Insurance Noodle’s...