Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Panelists Discuss Med-Mal Crisis, TRIA at PLUS Conference
Dec 20 2004 // Tort reform is necessary to alleviate the national medical malpractice crisis and the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) will likely be extended, claimed panelists at the Professional Liability Underwriting...
ASHRAM Recognizes Popp as Distinguished Fellow
Dec 13 2004 // The American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) recently awarded Pamela L. Popp, vice president of the Healthcare Practice for McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P. (MHBT) in Dallas and Fort Worth, the designation...
Pa. Governor Signs Bill to Help Doctors Pay for Malpractice Insurance
Dec 13 2004 // Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell signed HB 1211 on Monday, the legislation that extends the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (Mcare) Fund abatement program for Pennsylvania health-care providers through...
Docs to Lawmakers: Fix Malpractice Crisis
Dec 13 2004 // Western Maryland doctors are demanding relief from the skyrocketing medical malpractice insurance rates that have driven some of them out of business. Frederick’s two senators and six local delegates listened to...
Spitzer Subpoenas Great American’s Records on Legal Malpractice Insurance
Dec 7 2004 // Cincinnati-based American Financial Group Inc. announced that its property/ casualty insurance subsidiary, the Great American Insurance Co., has received a subpoena from the New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s...
MED MAL COSTS HARM MD. ECONOMY:
Dec 6 2004 // While Gov. Robert Ehrlich, House Speaker Michael Busch and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller were struggling to come up with a legislative solution and ease the blow of a 33 percent increase in medical malpractice...
Arch Subpoena from N.Y. AG Concerns Lawyers Malpractice Insurance Program
Dec 6 2004 // Arch Capital Group Ltd. (Nasdaq:ACGL) announced that, on December 2, 2004, Arch Insurance Group received a subpoena from the New York State Attorney General. The subpoena requested certain information concerning its...
MASS. MALPRACTICE CLAIMS DECLINE:
Dec 6 2004 // The number of medical malpractice payments made by Massachusetts doctors peaked in 2001 and has begun to gradually decline, while the average size of those payments continues to soar, according to a new government report....
Task Force X-Rays Maryland Medical Malpractice System
Dec 6 2004 // Having low risk doctors subsidize premiums for higher risk doctors, establishing state courts exclusively for health matters, abolishing the state’s arbitration office, licensing life care planners, restricting...
Coalition Delivers Signatures for Wash. Med-Mal Initiative
Dec 3 2004 // Led by a father whose baby was badly injured during a botched delivery, a coalition of activists, labor leaders and lawyers has submitted about 200,000 signatures for an initiative to the Washington Legislature aimed at...
S&P Affirms APA Ratings
Nov 29 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Rating Services has revised its outlook on Michigan-based American Physicians Assurance Corp. (APA) to stable from negative. At the same time, Standard & Poor’s affirmed its...
Missouri Malpractice Claims Fall by 14%, But Premiums Rise
Nov 22 2004 // The number of medical malpractice claims filed and paid is declining in Missouri, yet physicians’ premiums are rising, according to a report from the state Insurance Department. New medical malpractice claims dropped...
Two United Healthcare Companies Agree to $1.1M Settlement With N.C.
Nov 22 2004 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long announced a voluntary settlement agreement between the North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI) and two companies, United Healthcare of North Carolina Inc. (an HMO) and...
Consumers Caught in the Middle
Nov 22 2004 // In four states, Florida, Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming, pre-election battles raged between doctors, who claimed that America’s liability system is broken and should be repaired by placing caps on malpractice lawsuits,...
Special Legislative Session in Maryland Unlikely Before Doctors Med-Mal Payments Due
Nov 19 2004 // The head of a Maryland Senate committee developing legislation to deal with rising medical malpractice premiums said the panel should finalize its proposal at its next meeting in two weeks, and doesn’t think a...
Study: Medical Liability Harming Maryland Economy
Nov 17 2004 // A hospital industry backed study indicates that Maryland’s medical liability environment that is costing medical professionals more and more could end up costing as many as 3,000 jobs by 2005. “The effects of...
Best Upgrades FSR Ratings of Sierra Health Services
Nov 17 2004 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating to B++ (Very Good) from B+ (Very Good) of Sierra Health Services Inc.’s core HMO subsidiaries, Health Plan of Nevada Inc. (both of Las Vegas, Nev.), and its...
Md. Insurer Raises Rates for 6,000 Doctors
Nov 16 2004 // In what state legislators call a looming medical malpractice insurance crisis, the debate has focused on trial lawyers and incompetent doctors. Less attention has been paid to the Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society...
Ohio Medical Malpractice Commission Meets Tomorrow for 18th Time
Nov 16 2004 // The Ohio Medical Malpractice Commission will hold its 18th meeting tomorrow at 1 p.m. EST. The commission will hear testimony regarding the feasibility of a patient compensation fund, the effectiveness of medical...
CRM Offers New Workers’ Comp Program for California Health Care Workers
Nov 16 2004 // In an effort to help alleviate the shortage of affordable workers’ compensation insurance for California’s sizable health care industry workforce, Compensation Risk Managers (CRM) has begun offering coverage to...