All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 6 2007 // Hoping for a change of heart by Gov. Janet Napolitano, the Arizona Senate narrowly approved a medical malpractice bill to raise the bar on the legal burden of proof required for malpractice lawsuits involving emergency...
Feb 2 2007 // For Dr. David Russell, an Enid radiologist and president of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, the debate over civil justice reform in Oklahoma isn’t about the politics that has kept many reform measures bottled...
Jan 31 2007 // Integro (Bermuda) Ltd. announced that Susan N. Pateras has joined the firm as a Principal in the Healthcare Practice, and will lead the Bermuda Healthcare initiative. “Ms. Pateras has more than a decade of experience...
Jan 31 2007 // Hoping for a change of heart by Gov. Janet Napolitano, the Arizona Senate on Monday narrowly approved a medical malpractice bill to raise the bar on the legal burden of proof required for malpractice lawsuits involving...
Jan 29 2007 // The largest medical malpractice insurer in Illinois plans to lift a four-year-old moratorium on new business, citing an improved economic and legal climate.ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., which provides malpractice coverage...
Jan 29 2007 // As America ages and the health sector expands to accommodate it, demand for this coverage is also growingAllied Medical Professional Liability insurance provides coverage for those risks associated with the use of Allied...
Jan 28 2007 // Allied Medical Professional Liability insurance provides coverage for those risks associated with the use of Allied Health care Providers (AHPs), commonly known as “nonphysician clinicians.” This coverage is...
Jan 19 2007 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts has signed rules that establish treatment guidelines, treatment planning benchmarks, and return-to-work goals and time frames which can be used to provide...
Jan 19 2007 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced today that a Cleveland woman pleaded guilty to a felony count of workers’ compensation fraud.Carolyn Burten, also known as Carolyn Cook, pleaded guilty...
Jan 18 2007 // The Delaware Senate and House moved swiftly in the past week to pass a bill containing major reforms of the state’s workers’ compensation system and Gov. Ruth Ann Miller immediately signed the reforms into...
Jan 17 2007 // Senator John Ensign, R-Nev., has introduced the Medical Care Access Protection (MCAP) Act of 2007, which would set a cap on non-economic damages in medcial mapractice lawsuits.“Medical liability reform works, and...
Jan 17 2007 // Despite claims by business and medical lobbying interests, there is no medical malpractice lawsuit crisis in America, according to analysis released by Ralph Nader’s national group, Public Citizen.But there is a...
Jan 17 2007 // The largest medical malpractice insurer in Illinois plans to lift a four-year-old moratorium on new business, citing an improved economic and legal climate.ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., which provides malpractice coverage...
Jan 10 2007 // The Park Group (AVRECO), a wholesale insurance brokerage in Chicago, has announced the hiring of Sarah Dore, CPCU, to the position of senior vice president within the Healthcare department.Prior to joining AVRECO, Dore...
Jan 5 2007 // The Los Angeles-based offices of Worldwide Facilities Inc. and Heritage General Agency will be co-sponsoring a free continuing education seminar discussing medical professional liability coverages and products. The...
Dec 28 2006 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice A. Molasky-Arman has approved revised classification relativities filed by the Medical Protective Co. for physicians and surgeons. The revised factors contemplate an average 5.4 percent...
Dec 27 2006 // A Miami-Dade jury has awarded a woman $16 million in a medical malpractice case alleging complications from an unnecessary operation left her brain damaged.Lourdes Landis, 48, of Miami, suffered a seizure in 2001 after she...
Dec 27 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced two new purchasing groups: Hospitals of Texas (HOTComp) and Texas Medical Group (TMG).Both groups provide members with a competitive option for their workers’ compensation...
Dec 26 2006 // Most medical malpractice claims closed in Tennessee last year resulted in no payment of damages to patients and their families, according to a recent report.However, the approximately 16 percent of claims that were paid...
Dec 25 2006 // Pennsylvania should get out of the medical malpractice insurance business and return the medical malpractice market to the private sector as soon as possible, according to a recent report.Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken...