Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Health Plans Launch Ads to Show Med-Mal Crisis in D.C.
Jul 28 2005 // At a time when Washington, D.C. is grappling with rising health care costs and striving to further improve education and public safety, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is launching an ad campaign designed to...
Mo. Malpractice Claims Drop While Premiums Rise, Study Says
Jul 27 2005 // Medical malpractice insurers paid out significantly less in claims to Missouri physicians last year, but continued to raise the premiums they charge doctors, according to new study. The National Association of Insurance...
Harvard Developing Uniform Apology Policy for Boston Hospitals
Jul 26 2005 // Some of Harvard Medical School’s top teaching hospitals may add a lesson for their doctors: how to say sorry. A national specialist on patient safety, Dr. Lucian Leape, has led a group of physicians, patients, and...
Sierra Reports 2Q 2005 Earnings of $1.01 Per Diluted Share
Jul 26 2005 // Las Vegas-based Sierra Health Services Inc. reported that net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2005 was $33.8 million or $1.01 per diluted share, compared to $38.2 million or $1.10 per diluted share for the same...
Citing N.H. Med-Mal Market as Non-Competitive, Analyst Urges Prior Approval of Future Rates
Jul 19 2005 // The malpractice insurance market for doctors, hospitals and other medical professionals in New Hampshire is lacking competition such that a law allowing the insurance commissioner to approve any future rate hikes should be...
Ark. Clarifies Changes to Any Willing Provider Law
Jul 18 2005 // The Arkansas Insurance Department recently issued an advisory to all health maintenance organizations and accident and health insurers conducting business in the state about compliance with Arkansas’ Patient...
News Briefs
Jul 18 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Marsh Clients Urged to Hold Off: Massachusetts insurance customers of insurance broker Marsh & McLennan are being urged to hold off on agreeing to the broker’s proposed settlement by the...
Pa. Finds Private Market Lacking for Higher Med-Mal Limits
Jul 11 2005 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken has issued a report concluding that there is not sufficient capacity to shift a greater proportion of medical malpractice coverage to the private market from the state Mcare...
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...
