Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Atwell Joins The Buckner Co.’s Healthcare Practice in Utah
Oct 8 2014 // Salt Lake City, Utah-based The Buckner Co. has named Robert F. Atwell as the firm’s healthcare practice leader. Atwell’s primary focus will be on serving the region’s healthcare community. Atwell has 40...
N.Y. Doctor Found Guilty in Massive No-Fault Insurance Fraud Scheme
Oct 7 2014 // Authorities announced that a Brooklyn, New York-based doctor has been found guilty in a no-fault insurance fraud scheme following a two-week jury trial. According to a statement Monday from Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney...
Success of Ebola Lawsuits in Texas Would Have Long Odds
Oct 7 2014 // Potential suits against the Dallas, Texas, hospital that sent home a patient later diagnosed with Ebola face long odds in the face of state medical malpractice laws. Texas tort-reform measures have made it one of the...
ProAssurance, Pro-Praxis Introduce Excess Package for Complex Healthcare Risks
Sep 30 2014 // ProAssurance Corp. of Birmingham, Ala., has launched a new suite of excess insurance coverages, ProAssurance Complex Medicine, or ProCxM, for large healthcare facilities and organizations. This new package of coverages and...
Healthcare Firms at Risk; Hackers Value Medical Records Over Credit Data
Sep 26 2014 // Your medical information is worth 10 times more than your credit card number on the black market. Last month, the FBI warned healthcare providers to guard against cyber attacks after one of the largest U.S. hospital...
Accountants to Face Malpractice Claims in Alabama’s Colonial Bancorp Failure
Sep 11 2014 // Accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Crowe Horwath must face a lawsuit accusing them of professional malpractice and breach of contract for not catching a fraud that led to the 2009 collapse of Colonial Bank, a...
Insurance Noodle Launches Integrated Facility for Allied Health Services
Sep 3 2014 // Insurance Noodle has launched an integrated facility for allied health services across the United States, bringing together several leading markets via a single online access point. By accessing Insurance Noodle’s...
NORCAL Mutual Begins Offering Med Mal Coverage in Del., Penn.
Aug 29 2014 // NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, a medical professional liability insurance carrier domiciled in San Francisco, said it is now offering its medical professional liability coverage to healthcare professionals in Delaware...
Alabama Jury Awards $4 Million in Emergency Room Doctor Malpractice Case
Aug 22 2014 // A Walker County, Alabama jury has awarded a Carbon Hill woman millions of dollars in a medical malpractice suit against a doctor who mistook symptoms that led to her husband’s heart attack for a stomach...
Number of Medical Errors Reported by Mass. Hospitals Spiked in 2013
Aug 15 2014 // The number of medical errors reported by Massachusetts acute-care hospitals has jumped 70 percent since the state expanded the type of incidents hospitals are required to report. Hospitals reported 753 serious medical...
The Promise of Telemedicine to Pare Health Costs
Aug 12 2014 // Telemedicine could potentially deliver more than $6 billion a year in health care savings to U.S. companies, but only if the technology is widely-adopted. According to analysis by global professional services company...
Coverys to Acquire ELM Exchange in Maryland
Aug 11 2014 // Coverys, a Boston-based medical professional liability insurer, announced it has finalized an agreement to acquire ELM Exchange Inc. in Rockville, Maryland. ELM provides customized online educational programs that are...
Alabama Judge Dismisses Circumcision Malpractice Case
Aug 11 2014 // An Alabama law passed to rein in health care costs nearly three decades ago was at the heart of a judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit over what a man claims was a botched circumcision. Circuit Judge Jim Hughey III...
ProMutual Completes Acquisition of Medical Malpractice Insurer PPIC
Aug 4 2014 // Boston-based Medical Professional Mutual Insurance Co. (ProMutual), a Coverys company, said it has finalized the previously-announced acquisition of Preferred Professional Insurance Co. (PPIC), located in Omaha,...
Doctors, Hospital Deny Medical Malpractice in Alabama Man’s Circumcision
Jul 30 2014 // Two doctors deny claims by an Alabama man who says his penis was amputated during what was supposed to be a routine circumcision, one of their lawyers said. Defense lawyer Will Axon said allegations in a lawsuit filed this...
CGS&C’s New MGA Targets U.S. Healthcare Industry with Lloyd’s
Jul 22 2014 // Wholesale insurance broker Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC) has launched an underwriting management agency specializing in the healthcare industry. The new venture, Pro-Praxis Insurance, will be led by Robert Allen...
Johns Hopkins Health System to Pay $190M to Settle Hidden Camera Lawsuit
Jul 22 2014 // Johns Hopkins Health System will pay $190 million to settle a lawsuit on behalf of at least 8,500 women whose pelvic exams were secretly recorded by a gynecologist who later committed suicide. The Baltimore hospital said...
Number of Med Mal Suits in Pennsylvania Has Steadied
Jul 21 2014 // The number of medical malpractice lawsuits in Pennsylvania has steadied and leveled off over the last 10 years, according to statistics released by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts. The data shows 1,546 med...
Lockton Adds Smith to Healthcare Risk Practice in Atlanta
Jul 17 2014 // Insurance agency Lockton has expanded its healthcare risk management practice with the addition of Jeffrey Smith as senior vice president, Healthcare Leader, based in Atlanta. In his role, Smith will focus deliver...
MGIS, Stevens & Lee Launch Malpractice Program for Bariatric Surgeons
Jul 14 2014 // The MGIS Companies and Stevens & Lee have launched Surgi-Protect, a malpractice insurance program designed specifically for bariatric surgeons and their specific practices. With more than 35 percent of Americans...
