All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 3 2007 // New Yorkers know less about which doctors have been investigated for medical malpractice than people in other states do, and the agency responsible for disciplining physicians does little to root out misconduct and...
Dec 2 2007 // Four years ago, many Florida doctors threatened to quit their practices because their malpractice insurance premiums were spiraling out of control.Some doctors retired early, some moved out of state. A few briefly walked...
Dec 2 2007 // A federal appeals panel is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to clarify when the clock starts ticking on the filing of certain medical malpractice claims.Specifically, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Dec 2 2007 // If anyone is betting on what organization is running the show in Illinois, my money is on the Illinois Trial Bar Association. Put a check mark in the “win” column recently for the Trial Bar as the 2005 tort...
Nov 26 2007 // A suburban Pittsburgh couple has won a $3 million malpractice suit after the woman’s sinus infection was misdiagnosed and turned into a brain abcess.Lynn and James Flaherty, of Bethel Park, won the suit against...
Nov 25 2007 // Four years ago, many Florida doctors threatened to quit their practices because their malpractice insurance premiums were spiraling out of control.Some doctors retired early, some moved out of state. A few briefly walked...
Nov 21 2007 // A clear indication that Michigan’s 1993 tort reforms are working is that the state’s largest physician medical malpractice insurer is cutting its premiums by 12 to 25 percent for Wayne County physicians, the...
Nov 19 2007 // A federal appeals panel is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to clarify when the clock starts ticking on the filing of certain medical malpractice claims.Specifically, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Nov 19 2007 // Dr. Kostantinos Psihramis says he wanted to make a difference when he relocated from Virginia to the southern Illinois town of Belleville in late 2005, filling one of two holes created when specialists left the area.The...
Nov 19 2007 // A district judge has approved an $800,000 settlement in a malpractice and fraud lawsuit filed by a Billings, Mont., woman against her deceased daughter’s psychologist.Judge Susan Watters said the settlement amount...
Nov 18 2007 // The Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association released an actuarial analysis that it says shows that, for several years Connecticut Medical Insurance Co. has been overcharging doctors millions of dollars. They argue that this...
Nov 18 2007 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley in early September named attorney and long-time advisor Ralph S. Tyler to be the state’s insurance commissioner responsible for overseeing the regulation of Maryland’s $26...
Nov 14 2007 // A Cook County, Ill., Circuit Court ruling yesterday that strikes down the state’s 2005 medical liability reform law by calling the caps on non-economic damages for medical malpractice lawsuits unconstitutional is...
Nov 9 2007 // The Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association charged today that one of the state’s medical liability insurers has been charging doctors excessive premiums.The lawyers association released a new actuarial analysis that...
Nov 5 2007 // The amount paid in medical malpractice lawsuits in Tennessee was down last year from 2005, according to a new state report.Tennessee trial courts issued six medical malpractice judgments totaling $4.9 million during 2006,...
Nov 4 2007 // Loss ratios in the medical liability line of insurance generally have been declining nationally for the past few years, and the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas have not bucked that trend,...
Nov 4 2007 // A medical malpractice report on closed claims data indicates that claims are down in Washington. This is the third medical malpractice closed claim report issued by state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler. It analyzes...
Nov 4 2007 // Wyoming may revisit malpractice debateA state senator says he expects debate in Wyoming over medical malpractice reform, without focusing on capping damage awards in malpractice cases. “We are looking for something...
Oct 31 2007 // A $1.7 million judgment against an Elkins doctor who allegedly blinded a patient during spine surgery will stand after the West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously declined to hear the physician’s appeal.Lawyers for...
Oct 29 2007 // A jury in Auburn, Maine last week awarded nearly $8 million to a brain-damaged 5-year-old boy and his mother in their medical malpractice lawsuit against a Lewiston hospital and one of its midwives.The verdict in favor of...