All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 26 2013 // A panel of state lawmakers is studying a Senate bill that would overhaul Georgia’s medical malpractice system, with groups such as the Medical Association of Georgia and the State Bar of Georgia lining up against...
Sep 25 2013 // Florida automobile insurers are hoping a court lifts an injunction that has blocked portions of the state’s 2012 no-fault law from taking effect.Florida’s First District Court of Appeals recently heard oral...
Sep 20 2013 // Alterna has entered into the alternative risk marketplace, specifically focusing on providing medical professional liability services for physicians, clinics, and hospital groups through one company.Most group insurance...
Sep 16 2013 // A Dane County judge has upheld a $250,000 malpractice cap for University of Wisconsin-Madison doctors.The case involves a Verona woman who won a $1.8 million jury award in her husband’s death, as the jury found a UW...
Sep 13 2013 // Christopher Ellison went to a veterans medical center in Philadelphia to get eight teeth extracted in 2007. What should have been a routine dentist visit left him permanently incapacitated.The $17.5 million Ellison and his...
Sep 12 2013 // A consumer group says Oregon needs to change its new medical malpractice law to prevent it from protecting bad doctors.Public Citizen says cases that are settled in mediation should be reported to a national database, just...
Sep 3 2013 // Ten years after the Texas Legislature capped damages in the state’s medical malpractice lawsuits, the number of suits and the amounts paid out have fallen sharply.The Austin American Statesman reported that...
Aug 30 2013 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance says that so far, 207 Boston Marathon bombing-related property/casualty claims have been reported by the top 25 insurers and the residual market insurer Massachusetts FAIR Plan.These...
Aug 28 2013 // A southwestern Indiana jury has sided with an Evansville couple who accused a local hospital and a doctor of causing their 9-year-old daughter’s severe brain injury and cerebral palsy. The Vanderburgh Circuit Court...
Aug 25 2013 // A jury in one of New York’s most conservative counties recently returned a $130 million verdict in a medical-malpractice case, the second-largest in the state’s history. Lawyers for the losing hospital decried...
Aug 14 2013 // The expanding number of doctors offering appointments through videoconferencing, called telemedicine, is expected to see a sharp increase in Kentucky.Telemedicine is seen as a way to help deal with doctor shortages,...
Aug 13 2013 // A state court overruled Pennsylvania’s top insurance regulator in a decision made public Monday, siding with hospital officials and doctors who said a supplemental medical malpractice insurance fund is keeping too...
Aug 7 2013 // Jacksonville-based MedMal Direct Insurance Company (MedMal Direct), now in its fourth year of business, has received its certificate of authority from the Texas Department of Insurance and has officially launched...
Aug 7 2013 // Medicare patients receive more diagnostic tests and emergency department referrals when treated by physicians who worry more about malpractice liability, regardless of whether states have adopted common malpractice tort...
Jul 30 2013 // A Verona, Wis., woman is challenging a law that caps malpractice damages against University of Wisconsin doctors at $250,000.A Wisconsin State Journal report says a jury awarded Terri Fiez $1.8 million in a wrongful-death...
Jul 26 2013 // Under a measure being pursued for next year’s ballot by Consumer Watchdog California voters will have the opportunity to boost the cap on medical negligence lawsuits, but opponents of the measure on Friday said doing...
Jul 26 2013 // The U.S. medical professional liability (MPL) market has been profitable in recent years but challenges await MPL insurers because an influx of newly insured patients, coupled with health care delivery system changes,...
Jul 26 2013 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will reinsure about €700 million ($930 million) in claims for Ireland’s state health insurer, which is seeking to stem losses and its burden on taxpayers, as the...
Jul 24 2013 // The Iowa Supreme Court said a couple from Ecuador may sue their attorney for emotional distress because his advice caused them to be separated from their children and grandchildren for a decade.It’s the first time...
Jul 23 2013 // In a surprising decision, the Rhode Island Supreme Court held that a self-insured retention (SIR) endorsement in a nursing facility’s professional liability policy was void. However, the Court’s ruling is broad...