Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mass. Jury Awards $14.5M in Surgery Malpractice Case
Mar 5 2008 // A Bay State jury has awarded $14.5 million to the family of a 30-year-old Chelmsford, Mass. woman who died one day after undergoing thyroid surgery at Brockton Hospital. The lawyer for Shannyn MacPherson’s husband...
Colorado Senate Backs Raising Medical Malpractice Cap
Mar 5 2008 // The Colorado Senate has given final approval to a bill that would increase the amount juries can award in some medical malpractice suits. Senate Bill 164 applies to cases where someone has been disfigured or impaired. It...
S.D. Senator Blocks Workers’ Comp Health Records Bill
Feb 29 2008 // A South Dakota senator has succeeded in at least temporarily blocking a measure that would force injured workers to give their entire lifelong medical records to their employers. When the Senate considered changes made to...
Google to the Rescue with Electronic Medical Records System?
Feb 28 2008 // Google Inc has unveiled a plan to help U.S. patients gain control of their medical records and is working with doctors’ groups, pharmacies and labs to help them securely share sensitive health data. The long-rumored...
Calif. Appeals Court Permits Evidence of Nonparty Malpractice
Feb 28 2008 // A California Court of Appeals in the Second Appellate District has held that defendants are entitled to introduce evidence of a nonparty medical professional’s fault in aggravating a plaintiff’s injuries, and...
Former Dallas Cowboy Among Those Challenging Malpractice Award Cap
Feb 27 2008 // Former Dallas Cowboy Ron Springs, who has been in a coma since the fall following surgery to remove a cyst, is one of 11 plaintiffs challenging Texas’ medical malpractice cap in a lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit,...
Iowa Supreme Court Adds Twist to Medical Malpractice Opinion
Feb 25 2008 // The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday sent two medical malpractice lawsuits back to district court after offering a new opinion on how the statute of limitations can be interpreted. The decision, which affects a breast cancer...
Ind. Medical Malpractice Surcharge Rates to be Reduced 19% for Docs
Feb 20 2008 // Indiana doctors and hospitals will catch a break on the rates they pay to support a malpractice payout fund starting next month. But the deal probably won’t translate into lower patient bills. Patient’s...
U.S. Proposes System to Promote Voluntary Reporting of Medical Errors
Feb 15 2008 // The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a proposed regulation that promises to foster Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), private entities that would collect information on medical erors, or...
Neb. Medical Liability Insurer Adds Staff
Feb 14 2008 // Preferred Professional Insurance Co. (PPIC), an Omaha-based Catholic-owned medical liability insurance firm, recently announced two additions to its staff: Tricia Bliujus as claims analyst & risk consultant/R.N., and...
Texas Physicians Joins Lawsuit to Protect Liability Reforms
Feb 13 2008 // The Texas Medical Association reported it has joined a legal action aimed a protecting tort reforms passed by the Texas Legislature passed in 2003. TMA said it sued to resolve several constitutional challenges to the...
Conn. Jury Awards Record $38.5M in Malpractice Lawsuit
Feb 11 2008 // A Superior Court jury in Stamford, Conn. has ordered a city obstetrician to pay $38.5 million to the family of a boy born with cerebral palsy in 2003. The verdict is believed to be among the largest medical malpractice...
Some Ohio Officials Say Too Soon to Measure Impact of Tort Reform Efforts
Jan 28 2008 // Some Ohio state officials aren’t quite ready to say that legislative efforts to cap award amounts and other tort reform efforts are having an impact on dropping claims numbers. The state insurance director said last...
Physicians Insurance to Reduce Rates for Medical Malpractice in Washington
Jan 27 2008 // Washington’s largest writer of medical malpractice coverage for physicians and surgeons has reduced premiums for 2008 by 12.5 percent, following what appears to be a record-setting year of profits for the company in...
Wis. Proposal Would Expand Malpractice Suits to Parents of Adults
Jan 24 2008 // A bill passed by the Wisconsin Senate would give parents of adult children who die as a result of medical malpractice the ability to file lawsuits. Right now, parents of adult children in Wisconsin can’t sue for...
N.J. Distributes $16.4M in Medical Malpractice Insurance Subsidies
Jan 22 2008 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Steven M. Goldman reported that the state began sending subsidies of $16.4 million last month to eligible medical practitioners in certain high-risk specialties. The subsidy...
Feds Agree to $750,000 Payment in Florida Malpractice Suit
Jan 21 2008 // The U.S. government will pay $750,000 to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the family of a Florida woman who died after eight surgeries in just over a month in 2005. Betty Jean Plato, 76, arrived with stomach...
Conning Research: Medical Malpractice Poised for Long-Term Stability
Jan 17 2008 // Medical Malpractice insurance has been stable since its last market disruption in the early 2000s and is now poised for continued profitable growth, according to a new study, “Medical Malpractice: Getting Ahead of...
Va. Court to Rule on Malpractice Immunity for Charitable Care
Jan 15 2008 // The Virginia Supreme Court is expected to rule this spring on case that would spare tax-exempt physician foundations from malpractice suits because of their charitable care for the poor. Parties in the debate call it the...
OneBeacon’s Medical Technology Insurance Includes Products Liability
Jan 15 2008 // OneBeacon Insurance Group thas a new insurance product, @vantage for MedTech, which offers products liability protection for businesses that develop, manufacture or distribute medical devices. Highlights of the Products...
