All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 24 2011 // $10.2 MillionThe Kansas Insurance Department recovered $10.2 million for consumers last year, which is 32 percent less than it recovered in 2009. But the agency said the number of complaints from consumers about insurance...
Jan 18 2011 // Final enforcement actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) for December 2010 include fines of up to $78,000.Division of Workers’ Compensationfinal...
Jan 14 2011 // The Justice Department has agreed to pay $2.3 million to a couple who claimed inadequate care at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center caused their child to be born with neurological damage. The Virginian-Pilot reports that a...
Jan 11 2011 // The Connecticut Public Health Department’s online doctor database frequently omits information about past malpractice payments, making it difficult for patients to make informed decisions. The Hartford Courant...
Jan 6 2011 // Nearly one out of every five no-fault auto insurance claims closed in the New York City area in 2010 appears to have elements of fraud, according to a new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC).And as many as one...
Dec 30 2010 // It has been a challenging few years for those in the excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurance market. An endless soft market, extreme competition from the standard markets, and a bad economy left wholesale and retail...
Dec 20 2010 // Ironshore, Inc. has announced the creation of a specialty market program in partnership with BLIS, Inc to protect bariatric surgeons performing elective cash or self-pay surgery. The agreement will enable BLIS to expand...
Dec 17 2010 // A jury has ruled in favor of a Massachusetts couple and awarded them nearly $2 million in a medical malpractice suit they brought against St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester.Laura Ginisi claimed in the suit that misdiagnosis...
Dec 17 2010 // A northwest Arkansas doctor and a women’s clinic have been cleared in a medical malpractice lawsuit.A Washington County District Court Jury found Dr. Robert Hix and Parkhill Clinic for Women were cleared in the 2005...
Dec 17 2010 // Physicians’ fears of being sued for malpractice are out of proportion to their actual risk of being sued, according to a recent study.The study by a University of Iowa researcher and colleagues also suggests that...
Dec 14 2010 // IronHealth, the specialty healthcare unit of Ironshore Inc., has developed the Loss Portfolio Transfer Plus Program to meet the needs of captive insurance entities and other alternative self-insurance vehicles in the...
Dec 8 2010 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies announced that it has added the Czech Republic, Hungary and Portugal to its WORLDcert program, a proprietary online system that instantly generates certificates of insurance in 152...
Dec 8 2010 // The economy has taken its toll on all businesses today and law firms are no exception. They have experienced downsizing, pressure to change specialties in order to compete for new business, and other cost cutting measures,...
Dec 7 2010 // The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a defense expert can testify in a medical malpractice case even though a defendant failed to produce the raw data that the expert had “considered” in rendering his...
Dec 5 2010 // The economy has taken its toll on all businesses today and law firms are no exception. They have experienced downsizing, pressure to change specialties in order to compete for new business, and other cost cutting measures,...
Nov 29 2010 // The medical professional liability insurance industry faces new challenges from both health reform and increased competition. A new industry study by Conning Research & Consulting claims that both health care reform...
Nov 17 2010 // Mistakes and unavoidable problems kill an estimated 15,000 elderly U.S. patients every month in hospitals, U.S. government investigators reported Tuesday.More than 13 percent of patients covered by Medicare, the government...
Nov 12 2010 // Half of all graduating medical residents or fellows trained in Illinois leave the state to practice medicine elsewhere, in large part due to the medical liability environment in Illinois, according to a new study from...
Nov 12 2010 // Final disciplinary actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) in October include fines of up to $153,000, the department announced. Commissioner of Workers’...
Nov 10 2010 // Proposed 30 percent increases in what medical providers in New York are paid for treating workers’ compensation injuries could have unintended consequences for the state’s motorists, an industry group has...