All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 21 2008 // The U.S. government will pay $750,000 to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the family of a Florida woman who died after eight surgeries in just over a month in 2005.Betty Jean Plato, 76, arrived with stomach...
Jan 17 2008 // Medical Malpractice insurance has been stable since its last market disruption in the early 2000s and is now poised for continued profitable growth, according to a new study, “Medical Malpractice: Getting Ahead of...
Jan 15 2008 // The Virginia Supreme Court is expected to rule this spring on case that would spare tax-exempt physician foundations from malpractice suits because of their charitable care for the poor.Parties in the debate call it the...
Jan 15 2008 // OneBeacon Insurance Group thas a new insurance product, @vantage for MedTech, which offers products liability protection for businesses that develop, manufacture or distribute medical devices.Highlights of the Products...
Jan 11 2008 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed court documents alleging Select Physical Therapy Texas Limited Partnership and its parent company, Select Medical Corporation, for systematically exposing their customers to...
Jan 11 2008 // Washington’s largest writer of medical malpractice coverage for physicians and surgeons has reduced premiums for 2008 by 12.5 percent, following what appears to be a record-setting year of profits for the company in...
Jan 9 2008 // St. Louis, Mo.-based Keystone Mutual Insurance Co. recently announced that it is accepting applications from Missouri physicians for professional liability insurance upon being awarded a license Dec. 31 by the Missouri...
Jan 4 2008 // Washington has issued a warning to the public that some recently purchased cockatiels or other pet birds may pose a health risk to people who are exposed to them.The Washington State Department of Health said that some...
Dec 31 2007 // From storms that flooded the Midwest destroying homes and business in the summer to a court ruling that could have a significantly negative impact on the medical malpractice insurance market in the state of Illinois, 2007...
Dec 27 2007 // Eight lawsuits alleging medical malpractice by a former West Virginia doctor can continue toward trial while he settles his debts in bankruptcy court, a judge has ordered.Dr. John A. King consented to the rulings issued...
Dec 23 2007 // Severe summer storms that ransacked the Midwest, a court ruling that could negatively impact the medical malpractice insurance market in Illinois and RICO allegations in Minnesota were just a few of the news stories that...
Dec 23 2007 // A Massachusetts physician is responsible to all third parties who might possibly be affected by his failure to warn a patient about the side effects of a medication, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in a...
Dec 17 2007 // A major medical liability insurer will return nearly $100 million to the state of Maryland and local doctors, in a deal announced by state officials.Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Insurance Commissioner Ralph S....
Dec 17 2007 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said he is probably going to allow doctors to put off payments to the state’s medical-malpractice insurance fund as lawmakers work on legislation to extend a state subsidy that lowers...
Dec 14 2007 // ndiana Department of Insurance (IDOI) Commissioner Jim Atterholt recently announced that Patient’s Compensation Fund (PCF) surcharge rates will be reduced by 19.1 percent for physicians and 1.3 percent for hospitals...
Dec 11 2007 // The Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO) Board of Directors elected Thomas H. Grimstad, M.D., as its new president and chief executive officer. Dr. Grimstad will succeed John E. Lemoine, M.D., effective...
Dec 11 2007 // A Massachusetts physician is responsible to all third parties who might possibly be affected by his failure to warn a patient about the side effects of a medication, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in a...
Dec 10 2007 // A former West Virginia doctor facing more than 120 medical malpractice cases lists few assets and a pile of debt in a document filed as part of his bankruptcy proceedings in Alabama.John King’s assets consist of a...
Dec 5 2007 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is threatening to withhold state aid to help doctors and other health care providers pay for their medical malpractice insurance unless lawmakers also act on his proposal to expand state health...
Dec 4 2007 // A Wisconsin appeals court has upheld a jury’s $8 million medical malpractice award to a woman whose inner organs were paralyzed by a botched surgery.The state’s medical malpractice fund argued a judge coerced...