All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 8 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court expressed interest in Medtronic Inc.’s appeal in a lawsuit by a man who was rendered a paraplegic after surgeons implanted a system that infuses pain medication into the spine.The justices...
Oct 7 2013 // Georgia lawmakers are considering whether to overhaul the state’s medical malpractice system. A Senate panel heard testimony recently on Senate Bill 141, the Patient Injury Act, which would move medical malpractice...
Oct 7 2013 // Florida automobile insurers are hoping a court will lift 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...
Oct 2 2013 // A federal judge has struck down a key Florida medical malpractice law that required a patient to allow a defending physician’s attorney to informally discuss the case with the patient’s other health care...
Oct 1 2013 // The family of a baby who sustained nerve injuries as a result of negligence by a Lane County medical practice should be able to collect the full $1.375 million in noneconomic damages awarded by a jury in 2008, the Oregon...
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...