Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
How to Navigate Addiction Rehabilitation Facilities Through Healthcare Reform
Apr 8 2013 // The medical community’s recognition of addiction as a disease has changed the way providers diagnose and treat the condition. As a result, facilities like alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers have had to expand...
Glatfelter Program Managers in Pennsylvania Names SVP of Healthcare Practice
Apr 2 2013 // Glatfelter Program Managers (GPM), York, Penn.-based Glatfelter Insurance Group’s program business unit, promoted industry veteran Sue Federinko to senior vice president of Glatfelter’s healthcare practice.Sue...
Missouri House Passes Medical Provider Liability Limit
Apr 1 2013 // The Missouri House has approved legislation seeking to reinstate a cap on some damages in medical malpractice lawsuits that the state Supreme Court struck down last summer. Doctors say the cap helps control malpractice...
ProAssurance, CAP Partner to Offer California Hospitals Liability Protection
Mar 29 2013 // ProAssurance Corp., a specialty writer of professional liability insurance, and the Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. (CAP) are partnering to offer a new liability protection product, CAPAssurance, for hospitals and...
Study Shows Medical Claims Cost Increasing in Delaware
Mar 28 2013 // A new study says medical claims costs in Delaware will increase by almost 30 percent for individual policies under President Obama’s health care reform plan. The report released Tuesday by the Society of Actuaries...
Report: Massachusetts to See Drop in Medical Claims Costs
Mar 28 2013 // Medical claims costs are expected to soar in many states under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Massachusetts is an exception. A new study by the nation’s leading group of financial risk analysts,...
How Obamacare Could Affect P/C Insurance
Mar 28 2013 // The key changes in federal health care reform remain months away but property/casualty actuaries are already trying to determine what impact they will have on their own lines of business, particularly workers’...
P/C Mergers Down in 2012 But Private Equity Still Favored Brokers: Conning
Mar 28 2013 // Amounting to just $4.7 billion in aggregate deal value, the 46 merger and acquisition transactions announced in the property/casualty insurance sector in 2012 were near record low levels, according to the latest annual...
MagMutual Expands PL Coverage to Hospitals, Health Systems
Mar 27 2013 // MAG Mutual Insurance Co., a medical professional liability insurer in the Southeast, is now offering a suite of coordinated coverage, defense and patient safety products to hospitals and health systems. Provided through...
Florida Gov. Scott, Insurers Vow Fight to Save PIP Law After Injunction
Mar 22 2013 // A Florida circuit court judge has issued a temporary injunction against certain provisions of the state’s no-fault personal injury protection (PIP) law, ruling that it is no longer a “reasonable...
Florida Senate Medical Malpractice Bill Advances
Mar 20 2013 // A bill that would make it even harder to pursue medical malpractice claims in Florida has cleared a Senate panel. The Senate Judiciary committee voted up the bill (SB 7030) by a vote of 6-3 on Monday. It would require that...
Arizona Law On Medical Malpractice Suits Upheld
Mar 14 2013 // A new Arizona Supreme Court ruling upholds a state law that seeks to screen out flimsy medical-malpractice suits by requiring that plaintiffs have a testifying witness from the same medical specialty as the doctor being...
Audit: Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Fund Healthy
Mar 11 2013 // A new report says Wisconsin’s medical malpractice insurance fund is rebounding from a massive transfer and the economic downturn. The Legislative Audit Bureau has released a study that found the fund’s net...
Business Moves – Southeast
Mar 11 2013 // MedMal, Georgia Jacksonville-based MedMal Direct Insurance Co. has received its certificate of authority from the Georgia Department of Insurance and has officially launched operations as a medical malpractice insurance...
Ohio: 3K Medical Professional Liability Claims Closed in 2011
Mar 11 2013 // A total of 3,094 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2011 in Ohio, according to data collected by the Ohio Department of Insurance from entities providing medical professional liability coverage to Ohio...
West Virginia Senate Bill Limits Nursing Home Liability
Mar 8 2013 // A limit would be placed on the amount nursing homes would be forced to pay if sued under a bill passed by the West Virginia Senate this week. The measure explicitly includes nursing homes under the protections of a 2003...
MMIC Enters Indiana Medical Professional Liability Market
Mar 7 2013 // Minneapolis, Minn.-based medical malpractice insurer, MMIC, announced it has begun conducting business in Indiana. This brings the total number of states in MMIC’s core territory to nine. MMIC President and CEO Bill...
Beazley Adds Kim to Medical Liability Team in California
Mar 5 2013 // Michelle Kim has joined Beazley and will be located in the Glendale, Calif. office, adding to the company’s miscellaneous medical team. Kim worked for six years as the allied healthcare product head at Hiscox. Kim...
Ohio: 3K Medical Professional Liability Claims Closed in 2011
Mar 4 2013 // A total of 3,094 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2011 in Ohio, according to data collected by the Ohio Department of Insurance from entities providing medical professional liability coverage to Ohio...
Rockhill Hires New Leader of Healthcare Liability Division
Feb 21 2013 // Rockhill Insurance Group has hired Dave Stoner as vice-president to lead its healthcare liability division. He is based in Cleveland, Ohio. Stoner has more than 20 years of industry experience and spent the last 10 years...
