Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Pittsburgh Couple Wins $3 Million in Medical Malpractice Case
Nov 26 2007 // A suburban Pittsburgh couple has won a $3 million malpractice suit after the woman’s sinus infection was misdiagnosed and turned into a brain abcess. Lynn and James Flaherty, of Bethel Park, won the suit against...
Florida Malpractice Insurance Rates Down 4 Years after Limits
Nov 25 2007 // Four years ago, many Florida doctors threatened to quit their practices because their malpractice insurance premiums were spiraling out of control. Some doctors retired early, some moved out of state. A few briefly walked...
Mich. Medical Society Says Rate Drop Shows Tort Reform Law Working
Nov 21 2007 // A clear indication that Michigan’s 1993 tort reforms are working is that the state’s largest physician medical malpractice insurer is cutting its premiums by 12 to 25 percent for Wayne County physicians, the...
Federal Panel Asks Miss. Court to Clarify Medical Malpractice Limits
Nov 19 2007 // A federal appeals panel is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to clarify when the clock starts ticking on the filing of certain medical malpractice claims. Specifically, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Court Rejection of Award Caps Creates Uneasiness Again For Ill. Physicians
Nov 19 2007 // Dr. Kostantinos Psihramis says he wanted to make a difference when he relocated from Virginia to the southern Illinois town of Belleville in late 2005, filling one of two holes created when specialists left the area. The...
$800,000 Settlement Approved in Mont. Psychologist Malpractice Case
Nov 19 2007 // A district judge has approved an $800,000 settlement in a malpractice and fraud lawsuit filed by a Billings, Mont., woman against her deceased daughter’s psychologist. Judge Susan Watters said the settlement amount...
Trial Lawyers Say Research Shows Conn. Medical Liability Insurer Overcharges Physicians
Nov 18 2007 // The Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association released an actuarial analysis that it says shows that, for several years Connecticut Medical Insurance Co. has been overcharging doctors millions of dollars. They argue that this...
Regulating in Good Faith
Nov 18 2007 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley in early September named attorney and long-time advisor Ralph S. Tyler to be the state’s insurance commissioner responsible for overseeing the regulation of Maryland’s $26...
Circuit Court Ruling Strikes Down Illinois’ Medical Liability Reform Law
Nov 14 2007 // A Cook County, Ill., Circuit Court ruling yesterday that strikes down the state’s 2005 medical liability reform law by calling the caps on non-economic damages for medical malpractice lawsuits unconstitutional is...
Conn. Trial Lawyers Say Medical Liability Insurer is Overcharging Doctors
Nov 9 2007 // The Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association charged today that one of the state’s medical liability insurers has been charging doctors excessive premiums. The lawyers association released a new actuarial analysis that...
Malpractice Payouts Down in Tennessee in 2006
Nov 5 2007 // The amount paid in medical malpractice lawsuits in Tennessee was down last year from 2005, according to a new state report. Tennessee trial courts issued six medical malpractice judgments totaling $4.9 million during 2006,...
Medical liability loss ratios on the decline in South Central states
Nov 4 2007 // Loss ratios in the medical liability line of insurance generally have been declining nationally for the past few years, and the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas have not bucked that trend,...
Washington Medical Malpractice Claims Decreasing
Nov 4 2007 // A medical malpractice report on closed claims data indicates that claims are down in Washington. This is the third medical malpractice closed claim report issued by state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler. It analyzes...
News Currents
Nov 4 2007 // Wyoming may revisit malpractice debate A state senator says he expects debate in Wyoming over medical malpractice reform, without focusing on capping damage awards in malpractice cases. “We are looking for something...
W. Va. Justices Refuse Appeal in $1.7M Medical Malpractice Case
Oct 31 2007 // A $1.7 million judgment against an Elkins doctor who allegedly blinded a patient during spine surgery will stand after the West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously declined to hear the physician’s appeal. Lawyers for...
Maine Jury Awards $8 Million for Hospital, Midwife Malpractice
Oct 29 2007 // A jury in Auburn, Maine last week awarded nearly $8 million to a brain-damaged 5-year-old boy and his mother in their medical malpractice lawsuit against a Lewiston hospital and one of its midwives. The verdict in favor of...
Ohio Supreme Court Tosses Out $30 M Verdict in Medical Malpractice Case
Oct 29 2007 // The Ohio Supreme Court threw out a record $30 million verdict won by a brain-damaged man, citing his Detroit-area attorney for inappropriate theatrics in court. The verdict, the state’s largest medical malpractice...
News Currents
Oct 27 2007 // Fla. medical malpractice market continues to improve A recent state-sponsored report showed a continuing trend of recovery for the Florida medical malpractice industry – an industry that experienced double-digit rate...
Scott: Wyoming May Revisit Malpractice Debate
Oct 26 2007 // A state senator says he expects another debate in Wyoming over medical malpractice reform, this time without focusing on capping damage awards in malpractice cases. “We are looking for something that is different...
Pennsylvania’s Medical Malpractice Costs Dropping, Says Gov. Rendell
Oct 26 2007 // The amount of money paid by a state medical malpractice insurance fund will decline for a fourth straight year, a sign that the state’s malpractice problem is improving, Gov. Ed Rendell said. The Medical Care...
