All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 22 2006 // About 40 percent of the medical malpractice cases filed in the United States are groundless, according to a Harvard analysis of the hotly debated issue that pits trial lawyers against doctors, with lawmakers in the...
May 22 2006 // News CurrentsSenate Republican leaders have again failed in their efforts to place limits on medical malpractice pain and suffering awards. Senate Democrats successfully stymied two Republican bills, one a broad bill...
May 18 2006 // General Star Management Co. has expanded its miscellaneous healthcare facilities professional liability program to include medical spas whose focus is on cosmetic; complementary/alternative; or preventative/wellness...
May 17 2006 // St. Louis-based Missouri Physicians Mutual (MPM) maintained its position as the state’s top malpractice insurer in 2005 while more than doubling its reserves for future claims and increasing its premiums written by...
May 16 2006 // Many of the complaints the Minnesota Lawyers Board investigates get dismissed, including a large number filed by clients upset simply because their attorney lost, according to an Associated Press story.But every year,...
May 15 2006 // Missouri lawmakers voted recently to give the state insurance director the authority to veto medical malpractice rates that are “excessive” or otherwise inappropriate in an effort to help cut doctors’...
May 11 2006 // About 40 percent of the medical malpractice cases filed in the United States are groundless, according to a Harvard analysis of the hotly debated issue that pits trial lawyers against doctors, with lawmakers in the...
May 5 2006 // Passage by Florida’s Legislature of Senate Bill 1596 and House Bill 561, sponsored by Sen J.D. Alexander and Rep. David Rivera, Florida’s Legislature has tightened the grip on insurance fraud artists who steal...
May 4 2006 // Tort reforms are the best proven instrument for reducing medical liability insurance premium growth, according to a new study conducted by Stanford University Professor Daniel P. Kessler, JD, PhD, who also serves as a...
May 3 2006 // Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri is urging lawmakers to support his Health Care Tort Reform Act of 2006 which he says would bring balance to the state’s current tort system.“Our current tort system...
Apr 28 2006 // A newly released report says that recent consumer groups’ criticisms of the medical malpractice insurance industry contain “systematic flaws and the intentional misuse of industry data.”“This new...
Apr 27 2006 // The Arizona House reversed itself and approved Senate-passed legislation to make it harder to win medical malpractice lawsuits over emergency health care.The House had previously watered down an earlier version of the...
Apr 21 2006 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of Bermuda’s ACE Group of Companies, announced the introduction of “Foreign Clinical Trial Coverage,” to be available to U.S.-based life science companies...
Apr 20 2006 // Hospitals and physicians in New York now have a new option for obtaining professional liability coverage and physician excess professional liability coverage, through the establishment of the Healthcare Professionals...
Apr 14 2006 // Rising insurance costs and increased government spending could trigger changes in the nation’s health care system, according to some participants in a health care discussion Tuesday.Republican Sen. John Thune, who...
Apr 13 2006 // A Pennsylvania judge was asked to determine whether a $4 million verdict in a birth malpractice case is too large because a hospital said it could go bankrupt if it is forced to pay the damages.Attorneys for Trudy and...
Apr 9 2006 // Health care plays a significant role in Pennsylvania’s economy; however, the future of patient care is uncertain as problems with insurance and supply of services as well as increased demand for care combine to...
Apr 7 2006 // Illinois’s ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company, the state’s largest medical malpractice insurer, announced this week that it will cut its average premiums by 5.2 percent starting July 1, 2006.The announcement by...
Apr 3 2006 // The District’s two legislative proposals may serve a public benefit, but neither will reduce premiums for physicians Rather, any medical malpractice reform must have restrictions on non-economic damages and limits on...
Mar 31 2006 // A Pennsylvania federal court has upheld a $7.9 million award against an insurer for its bad faith in failing to offer plaintiffs the full limits of the policy and for assigning one lawyer to represent two of its insureds...