All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2012 // This article is part of our Hot Insurance Markets for 2012 special feature.Healthcare is one of the country’s largest industries. Annual spending on healthcare in the U.S. tops $2.6 trillion, more than 16 percent of...
Mar 19 2012 // The $7.8 billion settlement that BP is hammering out with victims of the massive Gulf oil spill provides a system for monitoring health concerns and compensating people whose illnesses are found to have a link to the...
Mar 19 2012 // Dishonest doctors and medical mills in New York better watch out!Following highly publicized crackdowns of major auto insurance fraud rings in the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a statewide initiative this month to...
Mar 14 2012 // Dishonest doctors and medical mills in New York better watch out!Following highly publicized crackdowns of major auto insurance fraud rings in the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a statewide initiative this month to...
Mar 9 2012 // Preferred Professional Insurance Company (PPIC), an Omaha, Neb.-based Catholic-owned medical liability insurance firm, has hired Patti Hiemer as the company’s accounting clerk and made a number of staff changes.James...
Mar 8 2012 // Rates have been lower for medical malpractice insurance offered by NORCAL Mutual Insurance, The Dentists Insurance Company, and the Medical Insurance Exchange of California’s Physicians and Surgeons program, saving...
Mar 6 2012 // A settlement that BP is hammering out with victims of the massive Gulf oil spill finally provides a system for monitoring health concerns and compensating people whose illnesses are found to have a link to the...
Mar 5 2012 // Dr. Stephen T. Woods, M.D. has been named medical director at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Woods will be responsible for providing direction in the development of medical policy and oversight for...
Mar 2 2012 // Pennsylvania’s highest court is handing the Corbett administration a major victory in a dispute over a malpractice insurance fund.The state Supreme Court’s Wednesday decision overturned a Commonwealth Court...
Mar 1 2012 // A physician and the office manager of his medical practice, along with five owners of home health agencies, were arrested today on charges related to their alleged participation in a nearly $375 million health care fraud...
Feb 17 2012 // A former director of Missouri’s insurance department has been named acting director of the Kansas City regional office of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Jay Angoff is taking over the position following...
Feb 16 2012 // XL Group plc’s Select Professional insurance underwriting unit and Hays Affinity Solutions have teamed up to offer professional liability insurance for dentists nationwide.“This coverage provides dentists with...
Feb 15 2012 // The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature is pushing ahead this year with changes meant to curb medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors.This effort is being criticized as an attack on the privacy rights of...
Feb 6 2012 // Although it comprises just over 2 percent of annual direct premiums for the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, the medical professional liability (MPL) insurance business is integral to the U.S. healthcare system,...
Feb 2 2012 // Diederich Healthcare has expanded its coverage area to include physicians practicing in New Jersey. The expansion offers additional coverage options to physicians in the state through Positive Physicians Insurance Exchange...
Feb 1 2012 // An online system from Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. can now be used to instantly obtain specimen policy language for trials in many countries where ethics committees require the review of insurance contract terms and...
Jan 31 2012 // Republicans in the Oregon Senate say they’ll fight Gov. John Kitzhaber’s proposed overhaul of the Oregon Health Plan unless it includes limits on medical malpractice claims, injecting a hot-button issue into...
Jan 27 2012 // Glatfelter Program Managers, a business unit dedicated to Glatfelter Insurance Group’s program business, appointed Bruce Williams as president of the newly formed Glatfelter Healthcare Practice division. Bruce...
Jan 25 2012 // Most agree that Florida’s automobile no-fault personal injury protection (PIP) system needs to be reformed. But in the halls of the state Capitol the struggle over just how to reform the law has exposed how...
Jan 24 2012 // A new program lets uninsured New York City artists exchange their art for medical services.Tony-Award winning actor Lin-Manuel Miranda and rapper and radio personality Roxanne Shante helped launch the “Lincoln Art...