All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 8 2023 // The Pill Club Holdings Inc. (dba The Pill Club) paid $3.2 million after the California Department of Insurance alleged it violated the California Insurance Frauds Prevention Act by submitting false claims to insurance...
Feb 2 2023 // Curi Holdings, a Raleigh-headquartered medical liability insurance company, plans to merge with Minnesota-based Constellation Inc., creating a company with more than $2 billion in assets, the companies said in a press...
Feb 1 2023 // Curi Holdings, Inc. and Constellation, Inc., two of the nation’s leading providers of medical professional liability (MPL) insurance, have signed an agreement to merge.Curi CEO Jason Sandner will remain CEO of Curi...
Jan 31 2023 // The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission will hold a hearing Feb. 13 on the proposed, 2023 medical service provider manual, which includes new fee schedules and an anesthesia conversion factor. FairHealth,...
Jan 30 2023 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will not sign the measure on her desk that seeks to expand wrongful death damages as it is written. Instead, she wants lawmakers to amend the bill to exempt medical malpractice claims from the...
Jan 25 2023 // Social inflation accounts for 8% to 11% of all medical malpractice losses for carriers that insure physicians, according to an actuarial analysis commissioned by The Doctors Co.TDC hired Moore Actuarial Consulting to...
Jan 24 2023 // Australia’s hospitals and health care system are at a high risk from cyberattackers targeting citizens’ personal data, the home affairs minister said, adding the country needed to step up its efforts to combat...
Jan 17 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS – North Memorial Health, a health care provider that operates two hospitals and 26 specialty and primary care clinics, urgent and emergency care facilities and medical transportation services throughout the...
Dec 21 2022 // AMSTERDAM — Dutch health technology company Philips said on Wednesday independent tests on its respiratory devices involved in a major global recall had shown limited health risks.The company rocked investors last...
Dec 20 2022 // The two-year statute of limitations for medical malpractice death claims applies even if the medical records available obscured the legal cause of death, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week.In a 3-2 decision,...
Nov 7 2022 // A federal jury has awarded $3 million to a former Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center worker who said racial discrimination led to his firing.Attorneys for David Ako-Annan, who is Black, said the damages...
Sep 30 2022 // The California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Workers’ Compensation and DIR’s Anti-Fraud Unit suspended 178 medical providers during the first eight months of 2022.Providers are suspended...
Sep 27 2022 // A former NFL player has been was awarded $28.5 million by a Manhattan jury ruling in his favor in a medical malpractice lawsuit over surgery that failed to fix his injured ankle, according to the player’s...
Sep 16 2022 // A Delaware workers’ compensation law passed in 2014 has succeeded in lowering workers’ compensation medical claim costs, new research shows.The report from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI)...
Sep 13 2022 // For 20 years, nursing has been rated as the most trusted profession in national Gallup polls. Even so, nurses make mistakes from time to time.A new report by professional liability insurer Coverys offers insight on the...
Aug 31 2022 // A county judge improperly took sides when he threw out expert testimony and dismissed a medical malpractice case, Maryland’s high court ruled last week.The Maryland Court of Appeals revived a lawsuit filed by a...
Aug 29 2022 // Pennsylvania’s highest court lastThursday reversed its own two-decade-old rule that required medical malpractice cases to be filed in the county where the alleged harm occurred, a win for civil plaintiffs and the...
Jul 28 2022 // Providence St. Joseph Health, the largest healthcare system in Washington state, failed to provide in-person American Sign Language interpreters for deaf patients, leaving them at the mercy of virtual interpreters whose...
Jul 25 2022 // Health care facilities in New Hampshire will have to implement and maintain workplace violence prevention programs under a new law.Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed seven bills into law this week, including a Senate bill...
Jul 12 2022 // Nine health care workers who sued Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate have until Money to reveal their identities.The workers have so far remained anonymous, but on Thursday, a...