Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Medical Liability Insurers Look Strong Now But Face Difficulties Ahead: Fitch
May 11 2012 // The medical professional liability insurance (MPLI) market continues to stand out as a relatively strong corner of the U.S. property/casualty business, with recent underwriting performance remaining favorable, according to...
Florida Looks to Fix Loophole in PIP Reform Law
May 9 2012 // Florida regulators are scrambling to fix a loophole in the state’s new auto no-fault insurance law that could affect medical payments to health care providers and trigger a spate of lawsuits against the law. Florida...
Denver Lawyer Loses Liability Over Medical MJ Practice
May 8 2012 // A Denver lawyer has lost her liability insurance because part of her practice involves representing medical-marijuana businesses. The Denver Post reported the Hanover Insurance Group told Ann Toney last month it...
Florida Governor Signs Long-Awaited Auto Insurance Anti-Fraud Bill
May 4 2012 // Florida’s decade long attempt to reform the state’s automobile no-fault insurance law has finally paid off. Gov. Rick Scott, flanked by rows of law enforcement officials and state officials, signed into law...
Protective Specialty Launches Allied Health Medical Professional Liability Product
May 4 2012 // Protective Specialty Insurance Co. will now offer an allied health medical professional liability product. It is designed for both entities and individuals in more than 250 subclasses. In addition to customized insurance...
New York Proposes New Rule to Crack Down on No-Fault Insurance Fraud
May 2 2012 // New York State regulators are expanding their effort to stop no-fault auto insurance fraud. The New York Department of Financial Services announced on Tuesday a new draft regulation, Regulation 68, that would make it...
ACE USA Enhances Hospice Insurance Products
Apr 27 2012 // ACE USA’s ACE Medical Risk Division now offers an endorsement for hospice care eligibility requirements. This new enhanced hospice care eligibility recertification endorsement serves as an amendment to ACE’s...
IronHealth, The Sullivan Group to Offer Obstetrics Risk Management Services
Apr 26 2012 // IronHealth, Ironshore’s specialty healthcare unit, has entered into an agreement with The Sullivan Group, an international healthcare risk management and patient safety organization, to help clients manage risk...
Republicans Prepare Should Supreme Court Overturn Healthcare Plan
Apr 23 2012 // Republicans in Congress are getting ready to answer an election-year question that has dogged the party’s campaign for months: How would it replace President Barack Obama’s healthcare law if the measure is...
Massachusetts Docs Eye New Approach to Medical Malpractice Claims
Apr 19 2012 // It may become easier in the future for Massachusetts doctors to apologize for mistakes if an experiment by three major hospitals to reduce medical malpractice lawsuits succeeds. The program, called Disclosure, Apology and...
Maine Woman Awarded $1.9M in Malpractice Suit
Apr 17 2012 // A Maine woman who sued a doctor for malpractice because she said he overprescribed her methadone has been awarded $1.9 million by a jury Charlene Whalen of Corinth sued Dr. Steven Weisberger, alleging the dosage of the...
NAS Allied Medical Facility to Offer GL on Occurrence Basis
Apr 17 2012 // NAS Insurance Services Allied Medical Facility is expanding its medical malpractice coverage to offer general liability coverage on an occurrence basis. Limits for professional and general liability up to $6 million are...
ACE USA, RPS Healthcare Expand E&O Coverage for Podiatrists
Apr 16 2012 // ACE USA’s ACE Medical Risk Division now offers increased reimbursement limits for legal expenses incurred because of an action by a federal or state agency arising from a podiatrist’s participation in the...
How Health Care Reform Will Reshape the Medical Malpractice Market
Apr 16 2012 // The Supreme Court is holding the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 in its hands, but that hasn’t stopped the medical malpractice liability market from developing new products and taking...
Court to Decide on Florida Medical Malpractice Caps
Apr 16 2012 // The fate of Florida’s caps on damages in medical malpractice cases now rests with the state’s high court after attorneys debated whether the caps are constitutional. The Florida Supreme Court recently heard...
Nearly 3K Medical Professional Liability Claims Closed in Ohio in 2010
Apr 12 2012 // Close to 3,000 medical professional liability claims were closed in Ohio in 2010, regulators report. The Ohio Department of Insurance’s annual Ohio Medical Professional Liability Closed Claim Report for 2010 showed a...
EK Health Names Benner Chief Medical Officer
Apr 9 2012 // San Jose, Calif.-based EK Health Services, a national workers’ compensation managed care firm, has promoted Dr. Douglas Benner to chief medical officer. As CMO, Benner is responsible for leading the operational...
Utah Medical Records Breach More Extensive
Apr 9 2012 // Health officials in Utah say hackers who downloaded thousands of medical files from state computers last week stole far more personal information than originally thought. The Utah Department of Health said Friday that...
Florida Supreme Court to Decide on Medical Malpractice Caps
Apr 2 2012 // The fate of Florida’s caps on damages in medical malpractice cases now rests with the state’s high court after attorneys on both sides of the issue debated whether the caps are constitutional. The Florida...
Massachusetts Health Care 5-Year Lobbying Topped $51M
Mar 29 2012 // Hospitals, insurers, doctors and unions are spending tens of millions of dollars trying to make sure their voices are heard on Beacon Hill as Massachusetts lawmakers weigh sweeping changes to the way the state pays for...
