All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jun 30 2009 // Austin, Texas-based medical professional liability insurer, Medicus Insurance Company (Medicus) has announced an overall 11 percent rate decrease for its insureds in Texas. The Texas Department of Insurance approved the...
Jun 29 2009 // A judge has rejected New Hampshire’s claim that a medical malpractice fund is an agency of the state.Judge Kathleen McGuire’s ruling Thursday appears to undercut the state’s argument that it can use a...
Jun 26 2009 // The Arizona Senate has voted to make it harder to successfully sue emergency medical providers for alleged malpractice.The Senate’s 21-8 vote approving a bill to raise the required burden of proof for claims of...
Jun 22 2009 // A coalition of more than 200 healthcare providers and policyholders has gone to court, saying the state has no right to take a $110 million surplus from a New Hampshire fund that underwrites malpractice insurance and use...
Jun 17 2009 // A Miami judge ruled on Tuesday that BDO International B.V. should not have to pay $352 million in punitive damages awarded against its U.S. member, BDO Seidman, in an ongoing landmark audit malpractice trial.Closing...
Jun 17 2009 // President Barack Obama warned doctors Monday the U.S. healthcare system was a ticking time bomb and urged them to support his overhaul, which includes a public insurance plan that many of them view with skepticism.Obama...
Jun 16 2009 // Maryland health officials say Doctors Community Hospital has been fined after failing to report that a patient died and at least seven others suffered serious harm as a result of mistakes by the medical staff.The 185-bed...
Jun 15 2009 // The Alabama Supreme Court has overturned a multimillion-dollar verdict that a jury in Mobile awarded to a woman whose child died shortly after birth four years ago. The justices sided with Mobile OB-GYN in a malpractice...
Jun 15 2009 // President Barack Obama Monday warned doctors the U.S. healthcare system was a ticking time bomb and urged them to support his overhaul plan, which includes a public insurance program that many of them view with...
Jun 10 2009 // Massachusetts-based medical liability insurance company Medical Professional Mutual Insurance Co., known as ProMutual, will acquire medical liability insurer and risk management company FinCor and its...