All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 19 2006 // Oregon has started its program to track medical errors at hospitals and determine what could have been done to prevent them.The Oregon Patient Safety Commission unanimously approved rules and guidelines for its effort to...
Feb 13 2006 // Dozens of federally insured medical providers have been blocked from helping the Gulf Coast recover from Hurricane Katrina because their medical liability protection doesn’t apply outside their own states.Doctors and...
Feb 13 2006 // As many as 700 women along the West Coast were not told that an institute financed by the insurance industry kept their placentas after giving birth in order to protect doctors and hospitals from potential lawsuits,...
Feb 6 2006 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently said that years of escalating premiums for medical malpractice insurance for the state’s doctors may be coming to an end.For the first time in six years, an insurer is...
Feb 6 2006 // The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Few argue with the success of this niche-based market, which has risen from 4 percent in 1984 to almost 15 percent of the insurance market in 2005.The National...
Feb 6 2006 // The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Few argue with the success of this niche-based market, which has risen from 4 percent in 1984 to almost 15 percent of the insurance market in 2005.The National...
Feb 5 2006 // Ohio insurance department says malpractice premiums going downThe Ohio Department of Insurance recently said that years of escalating premiums for medical malpractice insurance for the state’s doctors may be coming...
Feb 5 2006 // The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Few argue with the success of this niche-based market, which has risen from 4 percent in 1984 to almost 15 percent of the insurance market in 2005.The National...
Feb 3 2006 // Oregon has started its program to track medical errors at hospitals and determine what could have been done to prevent them.The Oregon Patient Safety Commission unanimously approved rules and guidelines for its effort to...
Feb 2 2006 // Dr. Elaine Davis, an obstetrician and gynecologist in the rural northwest Oklahoma community of Enid for nearly 40 years, loved practicing medicine. But at age 68, she thought it was time to ease back on her patient load...
Jan 27 2006 // A lack of meaningful tort reform in Florida has added unnecessary expenses to the insurance and healthcare industries in Florida, CFO Tom Gallagher told the Coral Springs, Fla. Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees. One of...
Jan 27 2006 // Oklahoma health care providers now have a direct line to the Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID), Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced. The new service is being offered so that health care providers have a direct...
Jan 27 2006 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) said it will support a Colorado proposal to eliminate a requirement that auto insurance customers purchase compulsory coverage to pay for emergency medical...
Jan 23 2006 // Some price hardening possible due to hurricanes; new opportunities seen in housing and health care marketsExperts agree. The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Few argue with the success of this...
Jan 23 2006 // Usually saying “I’m sorry” means good things for the person who says it. However when a physician says, “I’m sorry,” it could mean big trouble down the road in a court system.With this...
Jan 23 2006 // Experts agree. The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Who can argue with the success of this niche-based market that has risen from 4 percent in 1984 to almost 15 percent of the insurance market in...
Jan 22 2006 // Surplus Line Market: Speculations for 2006Experts agree. The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Who can argue with the success of this niche-based market that has risen from 4 percent in 1984 to almost...
Jan 10 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance, working in conjunction with the Collin County District Attorney’s Office, recently secured a criminal conviction against Don A. Bauer of Plano for insurance fraud. TDI said Bauer...
Jan 9 2006 // Usually saying “I’m sorry” means good things for the person that says it. However when a physician says “I’m sorry,” it could mean big trouble down the road in the court system.With this...
Jan 4 2006 // W. R. Berkley Corporation in Greenwich, Conn. has formed Berkley Accident and Health, LLC. Based in New Jersey, Berkley A&H will write accident and health insurance and reinsurance on behalf of W. R. Berkley...