All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 8 2011 // Ohio-based Hylant Group has tapped wellness professional Jerid Baxter to lead its growing health and wellness practice. Baxter will be responsible for designing and implementing programming and building the tools and...
Dec 6 2011 // A newspaper’s analysis shows the most common complaints received by the Ohio Department of Insurance come from people who had health claims denied.The Columbus Dispatch reports the department got more than 3,100...
Dec 5 2011 // An Iowa man who had been awarded $10.6 million in malpractice case won’t see any of that money.The Des Moines Register reports that court precedent set while the case was awaiting its second trial prevents Dennis...
Dec 5 2011 // An appeals court has dealt a setback to three state doctors who are fighting a malpractice suit by arguing their patient sent a claim notice to the Minnesota Justice Department’s headquarters in Madison. The doctors...
Dec 5 2011 // The U.S. government reopened public access to a database of malpractice claims and damages paid by doctors, with new restrictions that would prohibit using it in any way to identify the physicians.Consumer advocates and...
Dec 2 2011 // Nebraska should not wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the Obama administration’s health care overhaul before it prepares a state-based insurance exchange, a leading hospital advocate said.Bruce Rieker, a...
Nov 30 2011 // Hiscox has launched a terrorism liability product designed specifically for healthcare risks such as hospitals, physician offices, researchers and long-term care providers.The carrier says the product, which was designed...
Nov 29 2011 // Healthcare providers insured by Markel now have access to a free DataBreach endorsement.The new endorsement covers liability resulting from a compromise of confidential patient information and the associated costs. These...
Nov 21 2011 // A new report on medical services casts light on how different combinations of medical services contribute to workers’ compensation claim costs over time.Understanding what combinations of medical services are used...
Nov 17 2011 // The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center expects to file an appeal after two Allegheny County juries have awarded $12.5 million in damages to the family of a 24-year-old accountant who died in 2003 after an abscess was...
Nov 16 2011 // Medical liability insurer MMIC Group Inc. (MMIC), headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., has received final regulatory approval to change from a stock holding company to a mutual insurance holding company.The move...
Nov 14 2011 // New York courts specializing in the state’s 4,000 medical malpractice cases filed each year have begun expanding following the success of a Bronx judge in settling cases early.The approach, shown to cut court...
Nov 10 2011 // The nation’s transition to electronic medical records, now in full swing, risks overlooking potential patient safety problems, independent advisers warned the Obama administration in a report this week.Computerized...
Nov 10 2011 // The U.S. government reopened public access to a database of malpractice claims and damages paid by doctors, with new restrictions that would prohibit using it in any way to identify the physicians.Consumer advocates and...
Nov 8 2011 // IronHealth, the specialty healthcare unit of Ironshore Inc., is offering medical professional liability coverage for federally qualified health centers to provide protection for deemed and non-deemed healthcare services,...
Nov 7 2011 // Insurers in Tennessee will payout fewer damages in medical malpractice cases under a new cap on damages that took effect last month. The law also protects insurers from being sued under the state’s consumer...
Nov 4 2011 // A new report on medical services casts light on how different combinations of medical services contribute to workers’ compensation claim costs over time.Understanding what combinations of medical services are used...
Oct 28 2011 // Florida should allow more time for looking into suspicious claims, place a cap on attorneys’ fees and more closely regulate medical clinics to help reduce rampant fraud in the state’s personal injury protection...
Oct 17 2011 // Insurers in Tennessee will payout fewer damages in medical malpractice cases after a new cap on damages took effect earlier this month. The new law also states insurers may no longer be sued under the state’s...
Oct 17 2011 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group, has introduced a healthcare premises pollution liability insurance policy that is designed to address the environmental risks faced by the healthcare industry....