All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 4 2005 // Medical insurer ProSelect has received approval for an average 2.3 percent increase in physicians’ and surgeons’ medical malpractice insurance rates in Rhode Island. However, the insurer lost its bid for an...
Oct 3 2005 // The cost of malpractice insurance for Arkansas doctors didn’t rise as much this year, but a new law limiting damages in liability suits isn’t getting the credit, according to the Associated Press and the...
Sep 28 2005 // The chief executive officer and another top official of a city hospital knowingly gave dozens of altered documents to plaintiffs’ attorneys in a medical malpractice case, according to recent testimony in a...
Sep 28 2005 // Physicians in Pennsylvania will get a break from rising malpractice insurance premiums next year, as the Pennsylvania Medical Society Liability Insurance Company has indicated it will not seek a rate hike in 2006.The...
Sep 27 2005 // Independent actuaries with the firm Towers Perrin say that a July 2005 report released by the Center for Justice and Democracy and five other “consumer groups” is incomplete and unsound.Jay Angoff, an attorney...
Sep 23 2005 // Pennsylvania State Rep. Phyllis Mundy this week explained to fellow lawmakers why they should approve a bill she has introduced to cut down on medical errors and rein in health-care inflation.Mundy’s legislation...
Sep 20 2005 // Texas Medical Liability Trust announced that effective Jan. 1, 2006, it will reduce medical liability rates for new policyholders by 5 percent across the board. Current TMLT policyholders will receive this rate decrease...
Sep 19 2005 // IllinoisKatrina Could Affect Ill. Insurance Rates: Experts say the path of destruction left by Hurricane Katrina likely will lead to higher insurance rates in the metro-east and across the country, although it is unclear...
Sep 14 2005 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin recently announced the launch of a web-based medical liability data collection application that enables insurers and those who pay medical liability claims on behalf...
Sep 14 2005 // Connecticut Medical Insurance Co., one of the state’s largest writers of medical malpractice insurance, has decided to hold its rates steady for 2006 after raising them each of the last five years.The doctor-owned...
Sep 13 2005 // The cost of malpractice insurance for Arkansas doctors didn’t rise as much this year, but a new law limiting damages in liability suits isn’t getting the credit, according to the Associated Press and the...
Sep 13 2005 // American Physicians Assurance Corp., a provider of medical malpractice insurance in the Midwest and New Mexico, announced that premiums will be waived for the company’s insured physicians who volunteer with the...
Sep 6 2005 // American Physicians Capital Inc., a Michigan provider of malpractice insurance, has withdrawn its hostile bid to buy 24 percent of Physicians Insurance Co. of Wisconsin Inc. and opted to purchase a lesser share of the...
Aug 30 2005 // Seven North Carolina Better Business Bureaus and 148 Chambers of Commerce are receiving letters of caution from Insurance Commissioner Jim Long urging them to warn their members and citizens about the differences between...
Aug 22 2005 // A recently released study from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) points out that Missouri med-mal insurers paid out much less in claims in 2004 to state doctors, yet premiums continue to...
Aug 18 2005 // ProMutual Group, the laregst writer of medical malpractice insurance in the Northeast, is expanding its successful patient safety program aimed at reducing the incidence of shoulder dystocia.Shoulder dystocia is a birth...
Aug 18 2005 // Beecher Carlson, an insurance and risk management company, announced that it has expanded its National Health Care Practice with the appointment of seven industry professionals.The team expansion increases Beecher...
Aug 17 2005 // Patients face a significant risk for preventable adverse events and serious medical errors in hospital critical care units, according to a study sponsored by Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research...
Aug 4 2005 // Warning that California’s health care system is in a “death spiral,” Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi unveiled a comprehensive report outlining his plan to begin reforming the system and bring...
Aug 4 2005 // Los Angeles-based SCPIE Holdings Inc., a provider of healthcare liability insurance, reported continued improved results for its second quarter and first half ended June 30, 2005.For the 2005 second quarter, SCPIE reported...