Best Read Medical Professional Liability Headlines
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#1 Report: Medical Professional Liability Headwinds Continue Despite Improvement in 2022
Jun 2 2023 // A recent report by the Medical Professional Liability Association shows the medical professional liability insurance sector’s combined ratio improved from 108.1% in 2021 to 102.2% in 2022 – marking the...
#2 Virginia Judge Says Medical Malpractice Law Does Not Apply to Sexual Abuse Claims
Aug 23 2023 // Most of the claims of sexual abuse and other mistreatment made in a lawsuit by dozens of former patients of a Virginia children`s hospital can move forward, a judge has ruled, rejecting arguments that many of the...
#3 GEICO Suit Alleges $1.8M in Fraudulent Billings by New Jersey Healthcare Providers
Jun 30 2023 // Insurer GEICO is suing to recover more than $1.8 million in allegedly fraudulent and unlawful no-fault insurance charges it says it has paid to several New Jersey health centers since 2018. The charges were for a range of...
#4 Specialist Risk Group (SRG) Acquires Medical Liability MGA, The MPLC
May 4 2023 // Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based insurance broker, announced the acquisition of the managing general agent, The Medical Professional Liability Co. Ltd. (The MPLC), subject to regulatory approval. Financial...
#5 Delaware High Court Hands Agency a New Shot at Malpractice Claim Against Law Firm
Apr 23 2024 // A Delaware insurance agency has won another chance at proving a law firm was negligent in defending it in a non-compete dispute with another agency, a dispute it ended up settling for $1.2 million. The Delaware Supreme...
#6 GEICO Charges New York Pharmacy, Medical Clinics With $3.7M in Prescription Fraud
Dec 12 2023 // Insurance company GEICO has filed suit against a New York pharmacy and five medical clinics and their owners alleging they perpetrated a fraudulent scheme under the New York no-fault auto insurance system by submitting...
#7 West Virginians Fear Log Plant’s Potential Health Risks
May 2 2023 // Residents of a small West Virginia town less than two hours from the nation’s capital are worried that their health and quality of life in the Allegheny Mountains will be upended by a logging company’s plans to...
#8 No Sign of Health Risks From New York Solar Farm Battery Fire
Jul 31 2023 // Local officials said Friday there`s no immediate sign of health or safety risks from a northern New York solar farm battery fire that burned overnight and may persist for some time. The blaze near the tiny village of...
#9 Court Nixes ‘Wrongful Life’ Framing in Upholding $38M Fertility Malpractice Award
Feb 8 2024 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that claims involving the evolving field of assisted reproductive technologies can be decided using traditional negligence and medical malpractice principles and do not require...
#10 Co-Conspirator Sentenced for Damage, Unauthorized Access to Health System
Apr 15 2024 // A Rutland, Massachusetts man was sentenced in federal court in Worcester to conspiring to access a computer system of his former employer – a non-profit substance use and mental health treatment provider that operates...
#11 Kaiser to Pay $49M in California for Dumping Private Medical Records, Medical Waste
Sep 11 2023 // Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $49 million as part of a settlement with California prosecutors who say the health care giant illegally disposed of thousands of private medical records, hazardous materials and medical...
#12 UnitedHealth Unit Will Start Processing $14B Medical Claims Backlog After Hack
Mar 25 2024 // UnitedHealth Group said on Friday its Change Healthcare unit will start to process the medical claims backlog of more than $14 billion as it resumes some software services disrupted by a cyberattack last month. The company...
#13 Medical Experts May be Needed, Even in Negligence Claims – Kentucky Supreme Court
Jan 19 2024 // When a baseball umpire, well-traveled in college conferences, went to a hospital for X-rays on his surgically repaired ankle in 2015, a hospital attendant pushing the ump’s wheelchair accidentally bumped his foot...
#14 COVID Liability Immunity Includes Slips and Falls at Hospital – Alabama High Court
Jan 29 2024 // When the COVID-19 virus spread across the country three years ago, dozens of state legislatures approved statutes that granted health care providers immunity from legal actions brought by people who claimed to have been...
#15 Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Computers of Georgia City Police and Medical Clinic
Mar 28 2024 // Robert Purbeck, also known as “Lifelock,” and “Studmaster,” who hacked into the computer servers of the police department of Newnan, Georgia and a medical clinic in Griffin, Georgia, has pleaded...
#16 Tests Clear Recalled Philips Sleep Apnea Machines of Health Risks: Company
May 16 2023 // Dutch medical devices maker Philips said on Tuesday that independent tests have shown that the use of its respiratory devices involved in a major global recall did not cause health risks for patients. Philips said...
#17 MCI Syndicate-in-a-Box Gets Lloyd’s Nod to Provide Clinical Trial Funding Insurance
Feb 16 2024 // Asta, through its third-party managing agency at Lloyd’s, announced the “in-principle” approval of a syndicate-in-a-box (SIAB) to deliver a breakthrough insurance product that aims to accelerate the...
#18 Risk Strategies Acquires Medical Liability Agency in Virginia
Jan 25 2024 // National specialty insurance brokerage Risk Strategies announced it has acquired Professional Risk Associates, Inc. (PRA), a Virginia-based specialty healthcare insurance agency focused on medical professional...
#19 Alera Group Buys Med Mal Insurer CLS Healthcare Liability
Jan 19 2024 // Alera Group, an insurance and financial services firm in the U.S., announced the acquisition of CLS Healthcare Liability Specialists. Based in North Palm Beach, Florida, CLS provides malpractice coverage for physicians,...
#20 People Moves: Prime Names Schlueter SVP, Healthcare Professional Liability; Alliant Adds Hansen to Minneapolis Benefits Team
Oct 19 2023 // Prime Insurance Company Names Schlueter SVP, Healthcare Professional Liability Prime Insurance Company, headquartered in Chicago, Ill., named Bart Schlueter as senior vice president and head of healthcare professional...
