All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 1 2021 // Utilization of telemedicine services in the Texas workers’ compensation rose dramatically during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recently published report from the Texas Department of Insurance...
Oct 27 2021 // A recently published study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute found that the average medical payment for Indiana workers’ compensation claims with more than seven days of lost time was higher than the...
Oct 22 2021 // Utilization of telemedicine services in the Texas workers’ compensation rose dramatically during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recently published report from the Texas Department of Insurance...
Oct 13 2021 // Federal judges issued three different decisions on New York state and city requirements for Covid-19 vaccinations, upholding the status quo as the contentious issue winds it way through the court system.New York...
Oct 8 2021 // A small number of employees of Louisiana’s largest health system are suing to block a requirement that they get the COVID-19 vaccine in order to keep their jobs.The lawsuits filed in Louisiana state district courts...
Oct 7 2021 // More than a year after U.S. health care workers on the front lines against COVID-19 were saluted as heroes with nightly clapping from windows and balconies, some are being issued panic buttons in case of assault and...
Oct 4 2021 // Jennifer Bridges loved her job as a nurse at Houston Methodist Hospital, where she worked for eight years, but she chose to get fired rather than inoculated against COVID-19, believing that the vaccine was more of a threat...
Oct 1 2021 // Preliminary tests indicate iron-contaminated wastewater that leaked from a northwestern Indiana steel plant into a Lake Michigan tributary presents no risk to public health, the Environmental Protection Agency said.U.S....
Sep 30 2021 // The Mississippi state health officer said that he’s concerned about how the Health Department would receive money for its part in licensing and regulating a proposed medical marijuana program.Dr. Thomas Dobbs said...
Sep 16 2021 // Republican legislators in more than half of U.S. states, spurred on by voters angry about lockdowns and mask mandates, are taking away the powers that state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious...
Sep 15 2021 // A U.S. judge in New York on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a requirement that healthcare workers receive COVID-19 vaccines against the wishes of employees with religious objections.U.S. District Judge...
Sep 6 2021 // Bermuda’s Vantage Group Holdings Ltd. is introducing new product offerings in healthcare and excess casualty.Vantage was established in late 2020 and began writing reinsurance risk on January 1, 2021, through its...
Sep 1 2021 // A major California-based medical provider has agreed to pay a total of $90 million to settle allegations of Medicare fraud, officials said Monday.Sacramento-based Sutter Health, northern California’s largest hospital...
Aug 16 2021 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Danna-Gracey, a specialist in medical malpractice insurance headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida. Terms of the deal were...
Aug 16 2021 // Health implications related to COVID-19 will continue to drive elevated health system utilization long after the acute phase of the pandemic has concluded, likely leading to increasing costs and higher insurance premiums...
Aug 16 2021 // An Arizona Supreme Court decision says medical malpractice lawsuits involving unclear causes of death or other injury can’t proceed without sufficient expert witness testimony providing guidance for jurors.The...
Aug 10 2021 // The U.S. Department of Labor reached an agreement in which a Minnesota healthcare provider will pay more than $480,000 to settle wage violation allegations. U.S. District Court Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright on Aug. 5 approved...
Aug 4 2021 // Specialist insurer Beazley has launched a suite of covers to protect organizations within Asia Pacific’s rapidly expanding life sciences sector.In an environment in which risk exposures are complex and varied –...
Aug 3 2021 // An Arizona Supreme Court decision says medical malpractice lawsuits involving unclear causes of death or other injury can’t proceed without sufficient expert witness testimony providing guidance for jurors.The...
Aug 2 2021 // Southern California-based Prime Healthcare Services and two of its doctors will pay $37.5 million to settle whistleblower lawsuits that claimed the hospital system paid kickbacks to one of the physicians and bought his...