All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 2 2005 // Still trying to convince Congress that medical liability reform is not needed, an anti-tort reform group has reportedly released another in a long line of poorly designed and poorly executed, trial bar-funded...
Aug 1 2005 // Texas Tech Law Review has issued a comprehensive overview of lawsuit reform measures passed in 2003. According to an announcement released by the Texas Alliance for Patient Access, the 357-page article, the culmination of...
Jul 29 2005 // A national system designed to increase reporting of medical errors has won final congressional approval and been sent to President Bush.It is estimated that more than 250 Americans die every day as a result of preventable...
Jul 29 2005 // Delaware’s new system to track the results of medical malpractice claims is up and running, with the goal of lowering medical costs by proving to insurance companies that Delaware is a favorable place to insure...
Jul 28 2005 // At a time when Washington, D.C. is grappling with rising health care costs and striving to further improve education and public safety, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is launching an ad campaign designed to...
Jul 27 2005 // Medical malpractice insurers paid out significantly less in claims to Missouri physicians last year, but continued to raise the premiums they charge doctors, according to new study.The National Association of Insurance...
Jul 26 2005 // Some of Harvard Medical School’s top teaching hospitals may add a lesson for their doctors: how to say sorry.A national specialist on patient safety, Dr. Lucian Leape, has led a group of physicians, patients, and...
Jul 26 2005 // Las Vegas-based Sierra Health Services Inc. reported that net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2005 was $33.8 million or $1.01 per diluted share, compared to $38.2 million or $1.10 per diluted share for the same...
Jul 19 2005 // The malpractice insurance market for doctors, hospitals and other medical professionals in New Hampshire is lacking competition such that a law allowing the insurance commissioner to approve any future rate hikes should be...
Jul 18 2005 // The Arkansas Insurance Department recently issued an advisory to all health maintenance organizations and accident and health insurers conducting business in the state about compliance with Arkansas’ Patient...
Jul 18 2005 // MASSACHUSETTSMarsh Clients Urged to Hold Off: Massachusetts insurance customers of insurance broker Marsh & McLennan are being urged to hold off on agreeing to the broker’s proposed settlement by the...
Jul 11 2005 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken has issued a report concluding that there is not sufficient capacity to shift a greater proportion of medical malpractice coverage to the private market from the state Mcare...
Jul 5 2005 // Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., ranking member of the Committee on Finance, and Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo, chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, have introduced legislation to promote state-based...
Jul 5 2005 // Legislators have failed to reach agreement on how to ease doctors’ high insurance costs, so the issue may go before voters for a second time.“Neither side will give,” said Democratic Sen. Alan Bates, an...
Jul 4 2005 // MASSACHUSETTSRomney Would Require Insurance: Gov. Mitt Romney would require every person in the state to have health insurance under his plan for universal health coverage, which he has dubbed the Safety Net Care proposal....
Jul 1 2005 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced she is ordering First Choice Healthcare to stop conducting unauthorized business involving insurance in Oklahoma. The order states that the company has violated state...
Jun 28 2005 // A New Hampshire jury has awarded $2.6 million to the family of a teen who died after a massive aspirin overdose in 2001.But it’s not clear how much John and Gaie Mitchell will receive, because shortly before the...
Jun 27 2005 // A statewide group representing physicians is gearing up for a possible multimillion-dollar initiative campaign aimed at helping doctors burdened by rising costs for medical malpractice insurance.The Arizona Medical...
Jun 23 2005 // Insurers are urging Connecticut Gov. Jodi M. Rell to veto a medical malpractice reform measure that is sitting on her desk but Rell’s office has indicated she will likely sign the measure within the next few...
Jun 14 2005 // New Hampshire lawmakers have approved pretrial screening panels in medical malpractice lawsuits in hopes of controlling rising insurance costs for doctors.Many argued doctors are being driven from the state by the rising...