All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 7 2009 // Gov. David Paterson has signed legislation to freeze medical malpractice insurance rates in New York for another year, but the state’s largest insurer said it leaves the company financially weaker while efforts to...
Sep 7 2009 // Data breaches have hit an all time high and with that have been a dramatic increase in new data security and privacy laws and regulations. Both state and federal regulations have been in place for several years with...
Aug 31 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation has posted on its Web site the 2009 Performance-Based Oversight (PBO) Results for workers’ compensation insurance carriers and selected health...
Aug 25 2009 // The Idaho Supreme Court is considering whether a judge was wrong to throw out a jury decision awarding $750,000 to a woman whose two-year-old son died after surgery to repair a dog bite wound.Attorneys for Melinda Coombs...
Aug 19 2009 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments on Oct. 15 in a dispute between the state and medical providers over $110 million in a malpractice fund. The state had asked the court to expedite the appeal....
Aug 17 2009 // The family of a Connecticut woman who died five days after ovarian surgery has received $1 million from the insurance company of two doctors sued for medical malpractice.The lawyer for Barbara Beaudoin’s estate says...
Aug 13 2009 // A group of medical providers is challenging New Hampshire’s request for a speedy appeals process in a dispute over a malpractice fund. Lawyers for Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia and other policyholders of...
Aug 12 2009 // Gov. David Paterson has signed legislation to freeze medical malpractice insurance rates in New York for another year, but the state’s largest insurer said it leaves the company financially weaker while efforts to...
Aug 6 2009 // New Hampshire has appealed a lower court ruling denying its claim to a $110 million surplus in a fund that underwrites malpractice insurance.The state counted on $65 million of the money to help balance the budget in the...
Jul 31 2009 // A New Hampshire judge has rejected the state’s claim on a $110 million surplus in a fund that underwrites malpractice insurance.The state counted on $65 million of the money to help balance the budget in the fiscal...
Jul 29 2009 // A judge is expected to rule this week whether New Hampshire can take $110 million from a malpractice insurance fund to balance the state budget. Judge Kathleen McGuire froze the fund last month until its ownership is...
Jul 27 2009 // The New Jersey Supreme Court has overturned one of the largest medical malpractice suit verdicts in state history.Citing numerous trial errors and other problems, the justices reversed the $75 million in damages awarded to...
Jul 24 2009 // A judge has awarded $749,000 to the estate of a World War II veteran who lost much of his vision during a surgery at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in Jackson, Mississippi.Charles West died May 8,...
Jul 13 2009 // Arizona is making it harder to successfully sue emergency medical providers for alleged malpractice.Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a bill approved by the Legislature to raise the required burden of proof for claims of...
Jul 13 2009 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court on July 10 tossed out a $200,000 award to a father who watched one of his twin sons die during birth in 1998.In a decision praised by doctors but criticized by trial lawyers, the court ruled 5-2...
Jul 13 2009 // International specialist insurer Hiscox Ltd. announced the appointment of two healthcare underwriters to Hiscox Bermuda, subject to immigration approvals.Ian Thompson (Senior Vice President – Healthcare) and Nick...
Jul 9 2009 // New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced the indictment of 12 people and 9 corporations across New York City for their roles in an alleged criminal enterprise that paid hospital employees for confidential...
Jul 8 2009 // Acting New York State Insurance Superintendent Kermitt Brooks announced today that he is delaying the setting of new medical malpractice insurance rates.He said the delay is to allow time for the Senate to respond to the...
Jul 1 2009 // The real estate malpractice insurance line of business has operated at a loss over the last decade, according to a report recently released by the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional...
Jun 30 2009 // Four jurors wrote affidavits claiming they felt coerced by the court to rule against a doctor who lost a $6.12 million medical malpractice case, a The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.The affidavits came in the case...