Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Senators Seek State Alternatives to Medical Liability System
Jul 5 2005 // Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., ranking member of the Committee on Finance, and Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo, chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, have introduced legislation to promote state-based...
No Accord by Ore. Lawmakers on Doctor Insurance Problems
Jul 5 2005 // Legislators have failed to reach agreement on how to ease doctors’ high insurance costs, so the issue may go before voters for a second time. “Neither side will give,” said Democratic Sen. Alan Bates, an...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Romney Would Require Insurance: Gov. Mitt Romney would require every person in the state to have health insurance under his plan for universal health coverage, which he has dubbed the Safety Net Care...
Okla.’s Holland: Health Care Company Not Authorized for Insurance Business
Jul 1 2005 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced she is ordering First Choice Healthcare to stop conducting unauthorized business involving insurance in Oklahoma. The order states that the company has violated state...
N.H. Jury Awards $2.6 Million in Teen Overdose Malpractice Case
Jun 28 2005 // A New Hampshire jury has awarded $2.6 million to the family of a teen who died after a massive aspirin overdose in 2001. But it’s not clear how much John and Gaie Mitchell will receive, because shortly before the...
Ariz. MDs Group Moves Closer to Ballot Campaign on Med-Mal
Jun 27 2005 // A statewide group representing physicians is gearing up for a possible multimillion-dollar initiative campaign aimed at helping doctors burdened by rising costs for medical malpractice insurance. The Arizona Medical...
Conn. Gov. Rell Likely to Sign Med-Mal Bill Despite Insurers’ Concerns
Jun 23 2005 // Insurers are urging Connecticut Gov. Jodi M. Rell to veto a medical malpractice reform measure that is sitting on her desk but Rell’s office has indicated she will likely sign the measure within the next few...
N.H. Approves Pre-Trial Medical Malpractice Screening Panel
Jun 14 2005 // New Hampshire lawmakers have approved pretrial screening panels in medical malpractice lawsuits in hopes of controlling rising insurance costs for doctors. Many argued doctors are being driven from the state by the rising...
Conn. AG Questions Physician Management Firm Over Medical Malpractice ‘Kickbacks’
Jun 13 2005 // An obstetrician and gynecologist management company has been subpoenaed as part of an investigation into whether it received insurance kickbacks that artificially inflated malpractice insurance rates for Connecticut...
Conn. Med-Mal Bill Passes But Gov. Rell Undecided Whether to Sign It
Jun 9 2005 // Legislation aimed at curbing rising medical malpractice insurance rates passed the Connecticut House 105-43, but Gov. M. Jodi Rell doesn’t think it will be as effective as her plan and hasn’t decided if she...
Conn. Senate Approves Med-Mal Bill Without Caps on Awards
Jun 8 2005 // The Connecticut state Senate has approved a series of measures designed to lower medical malpractice insurance rates for physicians, who say rising premiums are threatening the availability of medical care in...
Aon Adds to Health Care Practice
Jun 8 2005 // Chicago-based Aon Corp., the world’s second-largest broker, announced that three health-care risk management veterans, Tris Gabriel, Michael Zuckerman and Mary Pulley, have joined its national health care...
Compromise Plan on Oregon MalpracticeDamages Drawing Concerns
Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...
Life-Saving Medical Technology Also a Culprit in Physicians’ Liability
Jun 6 2005 // In the debate over the crisis in the medical malpractice system, exorbitant jury awards and insurance industry pricing tactics are often singled out as guilty parties. But at least one report points out the central role...
New Health-Care Technologies Raise Malpractice Risks
Jun 6 2005 // New health-care technologies are helping people live longer, better-quality lives but also increase medical liability exposures, a panel of experts concluded at the Crittenden medical insurance conference in New Orleans...
Illinois Democrats Get Message on Medical Malpractice Reform
Jun 6 2005 // The latest turn in the battle over capping medical malpractice jury awards in Illinois may have the state’s trial bar singing the old Righteous Brothers tune, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’...
Compromise Plan on Oregon Malpractice Damages Drawing Concerns
Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...
Compromise Plan on Oregon Malpractice Damages Drawing Concerns
Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...
KFF: Medical Malpractice Claims Stable; FTCR Reports Time to Focus on Insurers’ Practices
May 31 2005 // The chief argument for legislation to limit the legal rights of patients injured by a physician – that the number of medical malpractice claims and the cost of those claims have been skyrocketing – is a...
Ill. House Committee Passes Bill to Cap Medical Malpractice Damages
May 30 2005 // As state lawmakers prepared to approve a deal on medical malpractice, Illinois doctors and hospitals celebrated a big victory Thursday but also braced for the sour medicine they will likely have to swallow to get their...
