All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 19 2007 // Medical professional liability insurer Medical Protective announced it will reduce its average rates for Texas physicians by another 7.3 percent effective Jan. 1, 2008.The company said the reduction will be the fifth in...
Sep 19 2007 // The state’s Dirigo Health program will save the Maine health care system $32.8 million in its third year of operation, the Maine superintendent of insurance has ruled.In a 23-page report, Bureau of Insurance Acting...
Sep 19 2007 // Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer plans to leave a state premium subsidy program and return some of the money it has received, saying it no longer needs the subsidy to stabilize premiums for doctors...
Sep 17 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) announced the results of the initial review of workers’ compensation insurance carriers and health care providers as part of the...
Sep 12 2007 // The Louisiana Supreme Court on Sept. 5 ruled that allegations that hospitals’ lack of evacuation plans led to injuries or deaths during Hurricane Katrina are not medical malpractice claims. Instead, such cases should...
Sep 12 2007 // OneBeacon Professional Partners will begin offering medical malpractice coverage tailored for podiatric physicians. The product will be offered on an excess and surplus basis, with limits available up to $1 million/$3...
Sep 7 2007 // Medical liability insurer Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT) recently approved a 6.5 percent rate reduction for all medical specialties and classes effective Jan. 1, 2008, the third straight rate reduction/dividend for...
Sep 6 2007 // Cutting the grueling work hours of doctors-in-training had little effect on reducing patient deaths, according to two large studies.Death rates dropped in one group of patients in veterans’ hospitals but not in three...
Sep 5 2007 // The Alabama Supreme Court pointed to jury instruction error in reversing a $3.85 million award for a Jackson couple in a medical malpractice suit over the death of their 6-year-old son.The ruling allows a retrial in Mobile...
Sep 4 2007 // A Florida jury granted a woman a $10.3 million verdict last week, agreeing that an emergency room doctor’s negligence caused her husband’s premature death.Nadine Raphael said Dr. James Shecter did not...
Aug 31 2007 // New York Insurance Superintendent Eric R. Dinallo and Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D. announced today the members of the Medical Malpractice Liability Task Force, charged by Governor Eliot Spitzer with...
Aug 27 2007 // Medical malpractice insurer PMSLIC Insurance Co. has filed for an overall 11 percent rate reduction in Pennsylvania. If approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance, the revised rates will go into effect Jan. 1,...
Aug 27 2007 // Oklahoma-based Physicians Liability Insurance Company (PLICO) announced that in just over two years it has overcome a $143 million surplus deficit. Carl Hook, M.D., president and CEO of PLICO, said the company met the goal...
Aug 13 2007 // Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he misspoke when he said he spent as much time, if not more, at ground zero exposed to the same health risks as workers combing the site after the Sept. 11...
Aug 10 2007 // HCA Inc. had nothing to do with the video posted on the Internet showing sealed evidence from several of the 122 medical malpractice cases against a former West Virginia osteopathic physician, lawyers have told a judge.A...
Aug 7 2007 // Regulations designed to provide guidance to insurers, providers, attorneys and claimants on complying with Washington’s new Health Care Liability Reform Law have been implemented, according to the Office of the...
Aug 6 2007 // There is not evidence of sufficient market capacity at the current time to mandate an increase in primary medical malpractice insurance limits in Pennsylvania, Deputy Insurance Commissioner Randy Rohrbaugh has ruled.He was...
Aug 6 2007 // North Carolina lawmakers made a mild breakthrough recently on medical malpractice reform, agreeing to limit monetary damages in certain health care negligence cases.The bill would cap damages in negligence cases involving...
Jul 26 2007 // A Boston jury has found against Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis in his medical malpractice lawsuit against two doctors he claimed botched his care after he had gastric bypass surgery five years ago.The jury...
Jul 24 2007 // North Carolina lawmakers made a mild breakthrough last week on medical malpractice reform, agreeing to limit monetary damages in certain health care negligence cases.The bill would cap monetary damages in negligence cases...