Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ind. Company Plans to Charge Workers for Unhealthy Habits
Jul 5 2007 // Unhealthy habits could cost Clarian Health employees a healthy chunk of money as the company tries to rein in rising health care costs. Starting in 2009, Clarian will begin charging workers extra for insurance if they let...
Pa. Hospitals Report Surgery Errors Caught Every Day But Many Occur
Jun 28 2007 // Pennsylvania hospitals reported making serious mistakes in the operating room — using the wrong procedure, operating on the wrong body part or even the wrong patient — 174 times during a 21/2 year period, according to...
Calif. Workers Comp Bureau Reports $3.8 Billion Spent on Medical Services
Jun 19 2007 // The Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has released its report on workers’ compensation losses and expenses for 2006. The report is prepared annually pursuant to Section 11759.1 of the...
W. Va. Judge Seals Records in Medical Malpractice Case
Jun 13 2007 // Legal documents in the numerous lawsuits filed against a former Putnam County General Hospital osteopath have been placed off limits by a West Virginia judge overseeing the cases. Putnam County Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding...
Hospitals Seek Delay of ‘Right to Know’ Malpractice Amendment
Jun 12 2007 // Hospital lawyers have urged the Florida Supreme Court to delay implementation of a state constitutional amendment that gives patients the “right to know” about past mistakes made by doctors and medical...
Privacy Groups Caution as Insurers Move Health Records to Web
Jun 11 2007 // Privacy groups are sounding alarms as the nation’s largest insurance companies finalize plans to allow millions more customers to post their health records on the Internet. Insurers like Hartford-based Aetna Inc. say...
Does Reform Matter? Look at Texas
Jun 11 2007 // Do policy changes like deregulation and tort reform really matter? Some people wonder because the costs of over regulation or a legal system run amok are largely hidden. They are no less real than the costs of taxation, of...
N.C. department declines to probe malpractice rates
Jun 4 2007 // The North Carolina Insurance Department said it won’t further investigate the state’s largest medical malpractice insurer, saying it disagrees with a trial lawyers’ association report accusing the company...
News Currents
Jun 4 2007 // Critics: Wyoming medical review panels aren’t lowering premiums Critics of panels that review medical malpractice cases in Wyoming say the oversight has not lowered the cost of medical malpractice insurance. Voters...
Author of Tenn. Malpractice Bill Now Relieved It Didn’t Pass
May 30 2007 // A Tennessee state representative who helped shepherd a bipartisan effort to limit frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits said he was glad the measure did not pass. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rob Briley,...
Jury Awards $5.7 Million in Cancer Patient Malpractice Suit
May 25 2007 // A Superior Court jury awarded $5.7 million in damages to a bedridden man who claimed a doctor failed to diagnose his skin cancer. The verdict is the largest medical-malpractice award in California this year, but will be...
N.C. trial lawyers hit medical malpractice rates
May 21 2007 // An association of trial lawyers has accused North Carolina’s largest medical malpractice insurer of violating state law by charging doctors excessive rates, but the company said its rates are reasonable. The North...
2007 Property/Casualty State Specialist Insurers
May 21 2007 // 1 Brickstreet Mutual Insurance Co. WV 765,963 2 Texas Mutual Insurance Co. TX 743,095 3 Old American Cty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. TX 491,641 4 SAIF Corp. OR 449,794 5 Universal Property & Casualty...
Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Names Botkin Senior VP, Healthcare Practice Leader
May 17 2007 // Large insurance broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co. of Richmond, Va., has hired Mary S. Botkin as senior vice president and healthcare industry practice leader. Botkin joins HRH from Alliant Insurance Services, (formerly...
MedPro Seeks 24% Med Mal Rate Cut in Conn.
May 17 2007 // What a diffence a few years makes. MedPro, whch sought to hike medical malpractice rates in Connecticut by some 90 percent three years ago, now wants to lower rates by 24 percent. On May 11, 2007, the company submitted its...
Critics: Wyoming Medical Review Panels Aren’t Lowering Insurance
May 15 2007 // Critics of panels that review medical malpractice cases in Wyoming say the oversight has not lowered the cost of medical malpractice insurance. Voters in 2004 amended the state constitution to allow the Legislature to...
Trial Begins for Man Suing Idaho Hospital in Malpractice Case
May 10 2007 // Lawyers for a man who blames an eastern Idaho hospital for brain damage during surgery for a minor wrist injury have begun presenting their case to a jury. Brock Higham is suing the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center,...
Omaha Medical Liability Co. Adds Staff
May 9 2007 // Preferred Professional Insurance Co. (PPIC), an Omaha-based medical liability insurance firm, announced two additions to its staff: Larry E. Pike, CLU, ChFC, LTCP, joins PPIC as senior account executive, and Emalee K....
Assisted living and miscellaneous medical facilities spur new growth
May 7 2007 // Rise in numbers of surgicenters, medispas and clinics brings new risks and opportunities in professional liability An aging population and a demand for new and unique medical services in non-hospital settings are driving...
Medical professional liability underwriters face new environment
May 7 2007 // Expect new exposures as practitioners replace physicians as supervisors and nanotechnolgy and stem cell research grow An ever-expanding health care and quasi-health care services environment has placed the role of...
