All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 17 2011 // IronHealth, the specialty healthcare unit of Ironshore Inc., has expanded its government billing errors & omissions product suite to include a policy form tailored to meet the needs of managed care organizations (MCO)....
Oct 17 2011 // Medical professional liability insurance (MPLI) carriers are in a strong financial position overall and the insurers are exhibiting rate discipline in soft market conditions, according to a report by A.M. Best.The past...
Oct 17 2011 // According to a new annual rate survey by Medical Liability Monitor, base-rate premiums for medical professional liability insurance (MPLI) continued their downward trend for a sixth consecutive year. The current soft...
Oct 17 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...
Oct 14 2011 // Hospitals and hospital groups should seek clarity from their malpractice insurers on the loading applied to premiums to account for claims inflation, according to Lloyd’s insurer Beazley.Specialist insurer Beazley is...
Oct 7 2011 // State officials have agreed to pay nearly $400,000 to settle two medical malpractice lawsuits stemming from treatments at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2004. The State Appeals Board approved a $300,000...
Oct 6 2011 // According to a new annual rate survey by Medical Liability Monitor, base-rate premiums for medical professional liability insurance (MPLI) continued their downward trend for a sixth consecutive year. The current soft...
Oct 5 2011 // Medical professional liability insurance (MPLI) carriers are in a strong financial position overall and the insurers are exhibiting rate discipline in soft market conditions, according to a new report this week by New...
Sep 30 2011 // Berkshire Hathaway’s medical professional liability insurance unit, Medical Protective Co., is purchasing New Jersey-based Princeton Insurance Co., a professional liability insurer for healthcare providers. Princeton...
Sep 30 2011 // Lawyers for a West Virginia nursing home are preparing to take a case to the state’s Supreme Court on the grounds that a $91.5 million jury award should be reduced under the state’s medical malpractice law.In...
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...