All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 5 2004 // Connecticut urgently needs to make common-sense reforms to its medical liability system in order to preserve patients’ legal rights while protecting affordable patient care and enhancing the stability of the...
Sep 22 2004 // Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has announced an “Early Offers” pilot program aimed at encouraging settlements of patients claiming to have been injured by medical mistakes. HHS...
Sep 20 2004 // From Concord, New Hampshire comes a tale about a laboratory, a lawyer and an alienated family. It resulted in a lost lab, a legal mess—and questionable conduct by the lawyer, according to the state Supreme Court...
Sep 17 2004 // After months of partisan and special interest stalemate over medical malpractice reform in the Illinois General Assembly, Gov. Rod Blagojevich has appointed a former judge and hospital lawyer to mediate ongoing...
Sep 14 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is on track to meet its Nov. 1 deadline for adopting emergency regulations that will allow medical provider networks to begin...
Sep 13 2004 // James B. Meathe, president and chief operating officer for Palmer & Cay, announced that Richard Huntington has joined Palmer & Cay in the position of Southwest Health Care Practice Leader. Huntington will be...
Sep 13 2004 // Laying a Foundation for Long Term SuccessBeing first is not a new thing to Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who was sworn in on January 12, 2004 as the first female Governor of Louisiana. Twenty years earlier, at the beginning...
Sep 8 2004 // Announcing its entrance into the Texas malpractice insurance market, Advocate, MD Insurance of the Southwest said its improved coverage options and excellent rates are proof that tort reform efforts ushered in last year...
Sep 6 2004 // It’s been a year since the voters of Texas passed Proposition 12, which ushered in reforms designed to lower the cost of medical liability insurance for doctors and health care institutions, and its supporters are...
Sep 1 2004 // Frustrated by the lack of action on meaningful medical liability reform, physicians today launched an initiative campaign designed to break the gridlock in Olympia over sensible reform of medical liability laws.Doctors for...
Aug 31 2004 // The Associated Press reported that an insurance company that had threatened to stop offering medical malpractice coverage to doctors in West Virginia has been granted a 9.5 percent rate increase, according to Gov. Bob...
Aug 26 2004 // Laying a Foundation for Long Term SuccessBy Stephanie K. Jones Being first is not a new thing to Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who was sworn in on Jan. 12, 2004, as the first female Governor of Louisiana. Twenty years...
Aug 25 2004 // Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. called again for a special session on medical malpractice this fall.Miller (D-Calvert) said in an interview with the Washington Post that he would like to create a state...
Aug 24 2004 // The Texas Hospital Association (THA) reported that nearly a year after the passage of sweeping medical liability reform, Texas hospitals are seeing a significant drop in their liability costs and using the savings to...
Aug 23 2004 // Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R) has had a busy last few weeks. Between weighing in on the AIK Comp Fund issue in the Commonwealth and seeing to it that residents get the help they need from storms that rumbled through...
Aug 23 2004 // A proposed constitutional amendment to limit pain and suffering awards to $500,000 in Oregon medical malpractice cases will be on the ballot this November. Physicians said that rising malpractice insurance costs have made...
Aug 20 2004 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. has moved to end what his agency says is a comprehensive scheme of medical malpractice fraud aimed, particularly, at women’s clinics.Redmer issued a cease and...
Aug 20 2004 // In testimony Friday before the Tennessee Department of Labor’s Medical Care and Cost Containment Committee, the American Insurance Association (AIA) endorsed a Medicare-based, objective fee schedule for provider...
Aug 17 2004 // National Specialty Underwriters Inc. (NSU) announced the hiring of Leslie Miller as senior vice president in charge of NSU Healthcare, a division of the company that specializes in the wholesale of medical professional...
Aug 3 2004 // Victims of medical malpractice would be denied their rights by a limit on damage awards, foes of the idea say, while advocates say the rising cost of malpractice insurance is keeping doctors out of Oregon.For the second...