All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 29 2024 // When the COVID-19 virus spread across the country three years ago, dozens of state legislatures approved statutes that granted health care providers immunity from legal actions brought by people who claimed to have been...
Jan 25 2024 // Connecticut-based Webster Bank has completed the acquisition of Ametros Financial Corp., a firm that administers medical claims settlements.Ametros provides post-settlement medical administration for those receiving funds...
Jan 25 2024 // National specialty insurance brokerage Risk Strategies announced it has acquired Professional Risk Associates, Inc. (PRA), a Virginia-based specialty healthcare insurance agency focused on medical professional...
Jan 19 2024 // When a baseball umpire, well-traveled in college conferences, went to a hospital for X-rays on his surgically repaired ankle in 2015, a hospital attendant pushing the ump’s wheelchair accidentally bumped his foot...
Jan 19 2024 // Alera Group, an insurance and financial services firm in the U.S., announced the acquisition of CLS Healthcare Liability Specialists. Based in North Palm Beach, Florida, CLS provides malpractice coverage for physicians,...
Dec 12 2023 // Insurance company GEICO has filed suit against a New York pharmacy and five medical clinics and their owners alleging they perpetrated a fraudulent scheme under the New York no-fault auto insurance system by submitting...
Nov 22 2023 // The Texas Supreme Court on Friday reversed a Dallas County judge’s decision to sanction an insurer for making an “overbroad” discovery demand, finding that the carrier had a valid interest in the medical...
Oct 19 2023 // Prime Insurance Company Names Schlueter SVP, Healthcare Professional LiabilityPrime Insurance Company, headquartered in Chicago, Ill., named Bart Schlueter as senior vice president and head of healthcare professional...
Oct 2 2023 // Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $49 million as part of a settlement with California prosecutors who say the health care giant illegally disposed of thousands of private medical records, hazardous materials and medical...
Sep 28 2023 // Paramount Healthcare Consultants, LLC, which operates facilities across Texas and Louisiana, and MPD Operators Nazareth Hall, LLC, doing business as Nazareth Living Care Center in El Paso, Texas, violated federal law when...
Sep 11 2023 // Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $49 million as part of a settlement with California prosecutors who say the health care giant illegally disposed of thousands of private medical records, hazardous materials and medical...
Aug 23 2023 // Most of the claims of sexual abuse and other mistreatment made in a lawsuit by dozens of former patients of a Virginia children`s hospital can move forward, a judge has ruled, rejecting arguments that many of the...
Jul 31 2023 // Local officials said Friday there`s no immediate sign of health or safety risks from a northern New York solar farm battery fire that burned overnight and may persist for some time.The blaze near the tiny village of...
Jul 18 2023 // West Virginia`s state health officer was selected Wednesday to represent one of the hardest-hit regions of the state for drug overdoses on the board of a private foundation that will be distributing the majority of the...
Jun 30 2023 // Insurer GEICO is suing to recover more than $1.8 million in allegedly fraudulent and unlawful no-fault insurance charges it says it has paid to several New Jersey health centers since 2018.The charges were for a range of...
Jun 28 2023 // DALLAS (AP) – Scorching temperatures brought on by a “heat dome” have taxed the Texas power grid and threaten to bring record highs to the state before they are expected to expand to other parts of the...
Jun 20 2023 // The Council for the Advancement of Social Services and Education, doing business as CASSE Community Health Institute, violated federal law when it subjected a Black employee to a hostile work environment on the basis of...
Jun 5 2023 // More than 40 years ago, the Illinois legislature sought to reduce the number of defendants in medical malpractice actions by allowing plaintiffs to name health care providers as respondents for the purposes of discovery...
Jun 2 2023 // A recent report by the Medical Professional Liability Association shows the medical professional liability insurance sector’s combined ratio improved from 108.1% in 2021 to 102.2% in 2022 – marking the...
May 22 2023 // More than 40 years ago, the Illinois legislature sought to reduce the number of defendants in medical malpractice actions by allowing plaintiffs to name health care providers as respondents for the purposes of discovery...