All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 21 2011 // Medical professional liability insurance company MAG Mutual Insurance Co. in Atlanta has named cardiologist Joseph S. Wilson Jr., M.D. as chairman and chief executive officer.Wilson moves from serving patients to serving...
Jul 21 2011 // One of Florida’s major medical malpractice insurers is seeking state approval to be sold to an out-of-state insurance group with the initial price tag expected to total $365 million. The Florida Office of Insurance...
Jul 20 2011 // After a mentally ill Georgia man was charged with stabbing his mother to death amid a psychotic rage, his father took a peculiar step that has so far divided Georgia courts: He filed a medical malpractice lawsuit seeking...
Jul 15 2011 // The most violent job in Washington state isn’t being a police officer or a security guard. It’s working as a nurse’s aide.Seattle public radio station KUOW-FM made that finding as part of an investigative...
Jul 14 2011 // The North Carolina Senate has rejected Gov. Beverly Perdue’s opposition to a bill to limit certain damages for negligence victims in medical malpractice cases. The Senate agreed Wednesday to override Perdue’s...
Jul 12 2011 // Ethics questions are being raised over a Missouri state senator’s handling of a medical malpractice insurance bill.The Kansas City Star reported that Sen. Rob Schaaf, the vice chairman of the committee where the bill...
Jul 6 2011 // Dallas insurance brokerage firm Holmes Murphy & Associates has added two well-known industry leaders in its ACAP Health Consulting division. Dr. Scott Conard will serve as chief medical officer and David Toomey is a...
Jun 30 2011 // The recent economic recession and prolonged real estate market slump are triggering a rise in the number of malpractice or professional liability claims lodged against law firms this year. A new study by insurance broker...
Jun 30 2011 // A congressman said he’ll renew efforts to strip military hospitals of their protection against lawsuits over mistakes made in treating service members, now that the U. S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case...
Jun 29 2011 // A medical company in northeast Oklahoma is trying a different approach to help uninsured patients and those who have insurance, but want to reduce costs for simple procedures.Access Medical operates clinics in Tulsa and...
Jun 29 2011 // The Florida Supreme Court has rejected a public hospital’s appeal of a $2 million malpractice verdict in the death of an infant.Justice Jorge Labarga wrote in the unanimous opinion that the Public Health Trust of...
Jun 27 2011 // North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue vetoed another bill Friday pushed by the Republican majority at the Legislature, this time changes to rules governing medical malpractice cases that would have capped certain monetary...
Jun 20 2011 // A Maine jury has awarded $6.7 million to a woman whose husband died at Eastern Maine Medical Center following an all-terrain vehicle accident. A Penobscot County jury on Monday granted the award to 49-year-old Paula...
Jun 20 2011 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a measure to cap payouts for medical malpractice and other civil cases that he said is good for business in the state.The law places a $750,000 cap on non-economic damages such as pain...
Jun 16 2011 // A Maine jury has awarded $6.7 million to a woman whose husband died at Eastern Maine Medical Center following an all-terrain vehicle accident. A Penobscot County jury granted the award to 49-year-old Paula Braley, of Lee,...
Jun 16 2011 // New York City paid nearly $521 million in personal injury and property damage claims in 2010 — marking the first time in 30 years the police department’s liabilities topped those of public hospitals, according...
Jun 10 2011 // The Employee Benefits Group division of the U.S. business group of Sun Life Financial, Inc. has launched a malpractice insurance reimbursement rider. The optional rider offers physician group long-term disability customers...
Jun 9 2011 // Atlanta-based Beecher Carlson, an industry specialized insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm, has acquired Santa Ana, Calif.-based DW Harper Group. The deal further expands Beecher Carlson’s...
Jun 7 2011 // Austin, Texas-based Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT) announced that Charles R. (Chip) Ott Jr. will assume leadership of TMLT as president and chief executive officer beginning in late July.He will replace current...
Jun 6 2011 // The number of medical malpractice lawsuits filed against doctors and hospitals in Pennsylvania dropped last year for the sixth year in a row.A total of 1,491 malpractice lawsuits were filed in 2010, according to a report...