All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 2 2013 // Glatfelter Program Managers (GPM), York, Penn.-based Glatfelter Insurance Group’s program business unit, promoted industry veteran Sue Federinko to senior vice president of Glatfelter’s healthcare practice.Sue...
Apr 1 2013 // The Missouri House has approved legislation seeking to reinstate a cap on some damages in medical malpractice lawsuits that the state Supreme Court struck down last summer.Doctors say the cap helps control malpractice...
Mar 29 2013 // ProAssurance Corp., a specialty writer of professional liability insurance, and the Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. (CAP) are partnering to offer a new liability protection product, CAPAssurance, for hospitals and...
Mar 28 2013 // A new study says medical claims costs in Delaware will increase by almost 30 percent for individual policies under President Obama’s health care reform plan. The report released Tuesday by the Society of Actuaries...
Mar 28 2013 // Medical claims costs are expected to soar in many states under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.Massachusetts is an exception. A new study by the nation’s leading group of financial risk analysts,...
Mar 28 2013 // The key changes in federal health care reform remain months away but property/casualty actuaries are already trying to determine what impact they will have on their own lines of business, particularly workers’...
Mar 28 2013 // Amounting to just $4.7 billion in aggregate deal value, the 46 merger and acquisition transactions announced in the property/casualty insurance sector in 2012 were near record low levels, according to the latest annual...
Mar 27 2013 // MAG Mutual Insurance Co., a medical professional liability insurer in the Southeast, is now offering a suite of coordinated coverage, defense and patient safety products to hospitals and health systems.Provided through...
Mar 22 2013 // A Florida circuit court judge has issued a temporary injunction against certain provisions of the state’s no-fault personal injury protection (PIP) law, ruling that it is no longer a “reasonable...
Mar 20 2013 // A bill that would make it even harder to pursue medical malpractice claims in Florida has cleared a Senate panel.The Senate Judiciary committee voted up the bill (SB 7030) by a vote of 6-3 on Monday. It would require that...
Mar 14 2013 // A new Arizona Supreme Court ruling upholds a state law that seeks to screen out flimsy medical-malpractice suits by requiring that plaintiffs have a testifying witness from the same medical specialty as the doctor being...
Mar 11 2013 // A new report says Wisconsin’s medical malpractice insurance fund is rebounding from a massive transfer and the economic downturn.The Legislative Audit Bureau has released a study that found the fund’s net asset...
Mar 11 2013 // MedMal, GeorgiaJacksonville-based MedMal Direct Insurance Co. has received its certificate of authority from the Georgia Department of Insurance and has officially launched operations as a medical malpractice insurance...
Mar 11 2013 // A total of 3,094 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2011 in Ohio, according to data collected by the Ohio Department of Insurance from entities providing medical professional liability coverage to Ohio...
Mar 8 2013 // A limit would be placed on the amount nursing homes would be forced to pay if sued under a bill passed by the West Virginia Senate this week.The measure explicitly includes nursing homes under the protections of a 2003 law...
Mar 7 2013 // Minneapolis, Minn.-based medical malpractice insurer, MMIC, announced it has begun conducting business in Indiana. This brings the total number of states in MMIC’s core territory to nine.MMIC President and CEO Bill...
Mar 5 2013 // Michelle Kim has joined Beazley and will be located in the Glendale, Calif. office, adding to the company’s miscellaneous medical team. Kim worked for six years as the allied healthcare product head at Hiscox. Kim...
Mar 4 2013 // A total of 3,094 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2011 in Ohio, according to data collected by the Ohio Department of Insurance from entities providing medical professional liability coverage to Ohio...
Feb 21 2013 // Rockhill Insurance Group has hired Dave Stoner as vice-president to lead its healthcare liability division. He is based in Cleveland, Ohio. Stoner has more than 20 years of industry experience and spent the last 10 years...
Feb 21 2013 // The University of Pennsylvania Health System says it plans to stop hiring smokers and tobacco users.The policy starts in July at a system that includes the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Applicants must be...