Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Lockton Hires Amato as Health Risk Solutions Director in D.C.
Nov 13 2014 // Karen Amato Privately-held insurance broker Lockton hired Karen Amato as director of Health Risk Solutions for the firm’s Washington, D.C., employee benefits operation. Amato is a registered nurse with expertise in...
Health Plan Costs Up Slightly; What Employers Are Doing About It
Nov 13 2014 // In 2014, U.S. companies and their employees saw a slight uptick in the rate of U.S. health care cost increases, according to an analysis by corporate health and benefits consultant Aon Hewitt. After plan design changes and...
ABD Insurance Adds Life Sciences Portal, Clinical Trial Coverage
Nov 13 2014 // San Mateo, Calif.-based ABD Insurance and Financial Services (ABD) announced new insurance and technology offerings in its Life Science Practice: a client portal and Clinical Trial Pac coverage. Life science companies...
Restricting Malpractice Suits Against Physicians May Not Reduce Defensive Medicine
Nov 3 2014 // Changing laws to make it more difficult to sue physicians for medical malpractice may not reduce the amount of “defensive medicine” practiced by physicians, according to a new RAND Corp. study. Studying the...
Tougher State Malpractice Laws May Not Reduce Defensive Medicine
Nov 3 2014 // Changing laws to make it more difficult to sue physicians for medical malpractice may not reduce the amount of “defensive medicine” practiced by physicians, according to a new study. Studying the behavior of...
Penn. Agrees to $200M Settlement in Med Mal Fund Case
Nov 3 2014 // Health care providers will be getting $200 million from the state of Pennsylvania in a settlement announced on Oct. 16 over litigation about a massive fund set up to help doctors pay malpractice insurance...
Pennsylvania’s Mcare Fund Assessment Down 48% for 2015 Coverage
Oct 31 2014 // Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced the assessment for the state’s Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (Mcare) Fund — a medical liability coverage fund run by the state — will decrease 48...
California Malpractice Proposition Hit by Polls, Studies, Spending
Oct 29 2014 // Two recent studies say a proposition on California’s November ballot to raise the pain and suffering cap for medical malpractice lawsuits will increase medical costs and malpractice premiums. The studies and heavy...
N.Y., N.J. Governors Stress Home Quarantine for Ebola Workers
Oct 28 2014 // State leaders in New York and New Jersey are at odds with scientists over Ebola as the states’ governors back 21-day quarantines for medical workers returning from West Africa, while the nation’s top...
Tougher State Malpractice Laws May Not Reduce Defensive Medicine
Oct 27 2014 // Changing laws to make it more difficult to sue physicians for medical malpractice may not reduce the amount of “defensive medicine” practiced by physicians, according to a new study. Studying the behavior of...
RLI Launches Healthcare Liability Division
Oct 23 2014 // Specialty insurer RLI Corp. of Peoria, Ill., has launched a new healthcare liability unit, RLI Healthcare, and tapped Scott Ducey, former vice president of the healthcare division at Torus, to lead the new division as vice...
Freedom Specialty, Pro-Praxis Unite for Healthcare Professional Liability
Oct 23 2014 // Freedom Specialty, an arm of Scottsdale Insurance Co., is partnering with healthcare underwriter Pro-Praxis, part of the Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford Group, for a specialized excess healthcare professional liability...
New York Says It’s Ready for Ebola, but Many Health Workers Aren’t So Sure
Oct 22 2014 // Millicent Gist, a receptionist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, was surprised to hear her facility was an officially designated hospital for people suspected of having Ebola in New York City. That’s...
Ebola Monitoring in Texas Expires for Some
Oct 21 2014 // About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in Dallas who had the disease, Texas health officials said. Officials said 43 of 48...
RLI Adds New Healthcare Liability Division
Oct 21 2014 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Corp. has launched a new healthcare liability division, RLI Healthcare, and added Scott Ducey to lead the operation as vice president. RLI will provide liability insurance coverage for targeted risks...
Update on Ebola in U.S.: New CDC Protocols, Rapid Response Team, Czar
Oct 21 2014 // The United States issued stringent new protocols on Monday for health workers treating Ebola victims, directing medical teams to wear protective gear that leaves no skin or hair exposed to prevent medical workers from...
Pennsylvania Agrees to $200M Settlement in Medical Malpractice Fund Case
Oct 17 2014 // Health care providers will be getting $200 million from the state of Pennsylvania in a settlement announced Thursday over litigation about a massive fund set up to help doctors pay malpractice insurance premiums. Gov. Tom...
Second Healthcare Worker Tests Positive for Ebola at Texas Hospital
Oct 15 2014 // A second healthcare worker in Texas tested positive for Ebola after caring for a patient with the deadly viral illness, adding to concern that infection controls at U.S. hospitals aren’t strong enough. The worker at...
Texas Healthcare Worker Tests Positive for Ebola
Oct 13 2014 // A Texas healthcare worker has tested positive for Ebola even though she wore full protective gear while caring for a hospitalized patient who later died from the virus, health officials said. If the preliminary diagnosis...
Are States, Cities Equipped to Handle Ebola Emergencies?
Oct 12 2014 // The missteps in Dallas’s handling of the first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States have revealed an uncomfortable reality: state and city plans for handling the deadly virus are based on generic recommendations...
