Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas AG: Health Services Provider Exposed Customers to ID Theft
Jan 11 2008 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed court documents alleging Select Physical Therapy Texas Limited Partnership and its parent company, Select Medical Corporation, for systematically exposing their customers to...
Physicians Insurance Files To Decrease Doctors’ Medical Malpractice Coverage in Washington
Jan 11 2008 // Washington’s largest writer of medical malpractice coverage for physicians and surgeons has reduced premiums for 2008 by 12.5 percent, following what appears to be a record-setting year of profits for the company in...
Keystone Mutual Enters Mo. Medical Malpractice Market
Jan 9 2008 // St. Louis, Mo.-based Keystone Mutual Insurance Co. recently announced that it is accepting applications from Missouri physicians for professional liability insurance upon being awarded a license Dec. 31 by the Missouri...
Pet Birds-Risk – WA Health Officials: Pet Birds May Pose Health Risk
Jan 4 2008 // Washington has issued a warning to the public that some recently purchased cockatiels or other pet birds may pose a health risk to people who are exposed to them. The Washington State Department of Health said that some...
Top Insurance Stories in 2007 in Midwest
Dec 31 2007 // From storms that flooded the Midwest destroying homes and business in the summer to a court ruling that could have a significantly negative impact on the medical malpractice insurance market in the state of Illinois, 2007...
Judge Orders W. Va. Malpractice Claims to Proceed Amid Bankruptcy
Dec 27 2007 // Eight lawsuits alleging medical malpractice by a former West Virginia doctor can continue toward trial while he settles his debts in bankruptcy court, a judge has ordered. Dr. John A. King consented to the rulings issued...
From Med Mal Caps to RICO Violations, No Headline Shortage in 2007
Dec 23 2007 // Severe summer storms that ransacked the Midwest, a court ruling that could negatively impact the medical malpractice insurance market in Illinois and RICO allegations in Minnesota were just a few of the news stories that...
Mass. Court Expands Doctor’s Liability to Nonpatients
Dec 23 2007 // A Massachusetts physician is responsible to all third parties who might possibly be affected by his failure to warn a patient about the side effects of a medication, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in a...
Medical Mutual Returning $100M to Maryland, Local Physicians
Dec 17 2007 // A major medical liability insurer will return nearly $100 million to the state of Maryland and local doctors, in a deal announced by state officials. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Insurance Commissioner Ralph S....
Pa. Gov. May Delay Malpractice-Fund Payments
Dec 17 2007 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said he is probably going to allow doctors to put off payments to the state’s medical-malpractice insurance fund as lawmakers work on legislation to extend a state subsidy that lowers...
Ind. Department Announces Lower Medical Malpractice Rates for 2008
Dec 14 2007 // ndiana Department of Insurance (IDOI) Commissioner Jim Atterholt recently announced that Patient’s Compensation Fund (PCF) surcharge rates will be reduced by 19.1 percent for physicians and 1.3 percent for hospitals...
Grimstad to Lead La. Medical Liability Insurer as President, CEO
Dec 11 2007 // The Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO) Board of Directors elected Thomas H. Grimstad, M.D., as its new president and chief executive officer. Dr. Grimstad will succeed John E. Lemoine, M.D., effective...
Mass. Supreme Court Expands Doctors’ Liability to Nonpatients
Dec 11 2007 // A Massachusetts physician is responsible to all third parties who might possibly be affected by his failure to warn a patient about the side effects of a medication, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in a...
W.Va. Doctor Facing Malpractice Lawsuits Files for Bankruptcy
Dec 10 2007 // A former West Virginia doctor facing more than 120 medical malpractice cases lists few assets and a pile of debt in a document filed as part of his bankruptcy proceedings in Alabama. John King’s assets consist of a...
Pa. Gov. Vows to Hold Up Medical-Malpractice Aid
Dec 5 2007 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is threatening to withhold state aid to help doctors and other health care providers pay for their medical malpractice insurance unless lawmakers also act on his proposal to expand state health...
Wis. Appeals Court Upholds $8 Million Malpractice Award
Dec 4 2007 // A Wisconsin appeals court has upheld a jury’s $8 million medical malpractice award to a woman whose inner organs were paralyzed by a botched surgery. The state’s medical malpractice fund argued a judge coerced...
Consumer Group Says N.Y. Lags in Medical Malpractice Disclosure
Dec 3 2007 // New Yorkers know less about which doctors have been investigated for medical malpractice than people in other states do, and the agency responsible for disciplining physicians does little to root out misconduct and...
Fla. Malpractice Insurance Rates Down Four Years After Limits Imposed
Dec 2 2007 // Four years ago, many Florida doctors threatened to quit their practices because their malpractice insurance premiums were spiraling out of control. Some doctors retired early, some moved out of state. A few briefly walked...
Federal Panel Asks Miss. Court to Clarify Medical Malpractice Limits
Dec 2 2007 // A federal appeals panel is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to clarify when the clock starts ticking on the filing of certain medical malpractice claims. Specifically, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Illinois Tort Reform Efforts Struck Down
Dec 2 2007 // If anyone is betting on what organization is running the show in Illinois, my money is on the Illinois Trial Bar Association. Put a check mark in the “win” column recently for the Trial Bar as the 2005 tort...
