All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2011 // One county in Florida has decided not to wait on state lawmakers’ promise to address the insurance fraud and fix the state’s automobile no-fault law. It has passed its own ordinance to crack down on fraudulent...
Sep 23 2011 // New technologies are flooding into the healthcare world, but the industry is not adequately prepared to protect patients from data breaches, according to a report published Thursday.A vast majority of hospitals, doctors,...
Sep 16 2011 // The group that owns the Atlanta Hawks and recently sold the Atlanta Thrashers has settled a $195 million legal malpractice lawsuit against the law firm King & Spalding.The Atlanta Spirit, which sold the Thrashers to a...
Sep 12 2011 // New Hampshire’s attorney general objected Friday to a proposed settlement in a tug-of-war over $110 million of surplus money in a state-created malpractice insurance fund because lawyers would get up to $27.5 million...
Sep 9 2011 // Chicago-based Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA Inc. named Theresa G. (Terri) Edwards national healthcare industry practice leader. Based in North Carolina, Edwards will report to Keith Burkhardt, executive vice president...
Sep 5 2011 // A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine says that one in 14 doctors faces a malpractice suit every year.Moreover, almost every physician will face a malpractice suit — or more than one — during his...
Sep 5 2011 // Texas Medical Liability Trust announced a rate reduction for TMLT policyholders and an 18.5 percent dividend for renewing policyholders, effective Jan.1, 2012. The average rate decrease will be 6.9 percent, but will vary...
Sep 1 2011 // Florida highest court will consider whether a $1 million cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases violates the state’s constitution.The Florida legislature enacted the cap as part of a 2003 law...
Aug 26 2011 // A Kentucky truck driver who was wheeled into surgery for a simple circumcision but awoke without part of his penis has lost his multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the urologist who cut off a cancer-riddled section of the...
Aug 25 2011 // Texas Medical Liability Trust announced a rate reduction for TMLT policyholders and an 18.5 percent dividend for renewing policyholders, effective Jan.1, 2012.The average rate decrease will be 6.9 percent, but will vary by...
Aug 23 2011 // Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see.There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors’ notes. Among the files...
Aug 22 2011 // A new South Carolina regulation for calculating medical fees in worker injury cases has set off opposition from insurers and business groups that claim it favors certain medical providers over others and will increase...
Aug 22 2011 // Opening arguments are scheduled to be heard today in the civil trial of a man who is suing a surgeon who amputated his penis four years ago.A jury was seated in a Shelbyville, Kentucky, courtroom last Thursday in the...
Aug 19 2011 // A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week says that one in 14 doctors faces a malpractice suit every year.Moreover, almost every physician will face a malpractice suit — or more than one...
Aug 15 2011 // North Carolina trial attorneys are upset with rising legal malpractice insurance rates and want lawmakers to act.The North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers wants lawmakers to place a cap on the awards that plaintiffs can...
Aug 10 2011 // An Army soldier who filed a lawsuit over the treatment of his wife’s cancer at a military hospital at Fort Campbell, Ky., has reached a settlement with the federal government for $2.15 million.U.S. District Court...
Aug 5 2011 // Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced that the state has made a payment of more than $200 million owed to the Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund (IPFCF).The payment includes a $200 million transfer as well as...
Aug 1 2011 // The state of Wisconsin has reached an agreement with the Wisconsin Medical Society over the repayment of a fund set up to pay medical malpractice claims that was raided in 2007 to help balance the budget.The agreement...
Jul 27 2011 // Victims of North Carolina doctors guilty of medical malpractice will be limited to $500,000 what they can collect for pain, suffering and lost body parts under legislation the state House passed into law over a veto by...
Jul 22 2011 // The state of Wisconsin has reached an agreement with the Wisconsin Medical Society over the repayment of a fund set up to pay medical malpractice claims that was raided in 2007 to help balance the budget.The agreement...