Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Weak Competition Drives N.H. to Require Prior OK of Med-Mal Rates
Oct 20 2005 // Medical malpractice insurers writing in New Hampshire will be required to get advance approval of any rate changes during the next year following an order by Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny. The switch to prior...
Study Finds Fewer Med-Mal Claims Against Hospitals and Physicians
Oct 18 2005 // While the severity of malpractice claims continues to rise – growing at a rate of 7.5 percent annually – the frequency of malpractice claims has decreased by 1 percent over the past year, according to the 2005...
ProMutual Stays on Course as Medical Liability Market Starts Moving Again
Oct 17 2005 // Richard Brewer likens the medical liability business to a barge floating down the Mississippi. “You’re never quite sure what it’s going to look like around the bend,” he explained. As president and...
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Oct 17 2005 // Nancy C. Gates was honored by the Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia as its 2005 Outstanding Certified Insurance Service Representative. Since 1996, Gates has been a commercial lines, large account representative...
Miss. Medical Assurance Co. Announces 5 Percent Decrease in Medical Malpractice Rates
Oct 14 2005 // Medical Assurance Co. of Mississippi, a physician owned provider which covers about 70 percent of the state’s physicians, has announced a 5 percent decrease in its 2006 malpractice rates and a 10 percent refund on...
Gay Partner Can’t Sue Hospital for Malpractice, N.Y. Appeals Court Rules
Oct 13 2005 // A New York Appeals Court has ruled that the same sex partner of a man who died after surgery related to injuries suffered in a car accident does not have standing to sue the hospital for malpractice under state law. The...
Miss. Medical Liability Rates to Drop 5 Percent in 2006
Oct 11 2005 // Medical liability insurance rates in Mississippi will be reduced in 2006 by 5 percent according to a proposal submitted by the Medical Assurance Company of Mississippi to Insurance Commissioner George Dale. The reduction...
R.I. Governor Proposes Plan for Better Health System By 2010
Oct 4 2005 // Saying that affordable health care should be within the reach for all Rhode Islanders, Governor Donald L. Carcieri this week laid out a series of five initiatives to improve the state’s system of care by the eyar...
R.I. Grants 2.3% Hike in ProSelect’s Rates for Physicians
Oct 4 2005 // Medical insurer ProSelect has received approval for an average 2.3 percent increase in physicians’ and surgeons’ medical malpractice insurance rates in Rhode Island. However, the insurer lost its bid for an...
Med-Mal Rate Increases Slow Down in Arkansas
Oct 3 2005 // The cost of malpractice insurance for Arkansas doctors didn’t rise as much this year, but a new law limiting damages in liability suits isn’t getting the credit, according to the Associated Press and the...
Pa. Hospital Risk Manager Says Malpractice Documents Were Altered
Sep 28 2005 // The chief executive officer and another top official of a city hospital knowingly gave dozens of altered documents to plaintiffs’ attorneys in a medical malpractice case, according to recent testimony in a...
Pa. Insurer Will Not Raise Medical Malpractice Rates for 2006
Sep 28 2005 // Physicians in Pennsylvania will get a break from rising malpractice insurance premiums next year, as the Pennsylvania Medical Society Liability Insurance Company has indicated it will not seek a rate hike in 2006. The...
Actuaries Say Med-Mal Report Misled the Public
Sep 27 2005 // Independent actuaries with the firm Towers Perrin say that a July 2005 report released by the Center for Justice and Democracy and five other “consumer groups” is incomplete and unsound. Jay Angoff, an attorney...
Pa. Measure Would Grant Premium Break for Reducing Medical Errors
Sep 23 2005 // Pennsylvania State Rep. Phyllis Mundy this week explained to fellow lawmakers why they should approve a bill she has introduced to cut down on medical errors and rein in health-care inflation. Mundy’s legislation...
TMLT to Reduce Rates 5%
Sep 20 2005 // Texas Medical Liability Trust announced that effective Jan. 1, 2006, it will reduce medical liability rates for new policyholders by 5 percent across the board. Current TMLT policyholders will receive this rate decrease...
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Sep 19 2005 // Illinois Katrina Could Affect Ill. Insurance Rates: Experts say the path of destruction left by Hurricane Katrina likely will lead to higher insurance rates in the metro-east and across the country, although it is unclear...
Ohio Dept. to Collect Medical Liability Claims Data
Sep 14 2005 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin recently announced the launch of a web-based medical liability data collection application that enables insurers and those who pay medical liability claims on behalf...
Conn. Medical Holds Malpractice Rates Even After 5 Years of Hikes
Sep 14 2005 // Connecticut Medical Insurance Co., one of the state’s largest writers of medical malpractice insurance, has decided to hold its rates steady for 2006 after raising them each of the last five years. The doctor-owned...
Ark. Med-Mal Rate Increases Slow
Sep 13 2005 // The cost of malpractice insurance for Arkansas doctors didn’t rise as much this year, but a new law limiting damages in liability suits isn’t getting the credit, according to the Associated Press and the...
American Physicians to Waive Liability Premiums for Katrina Volunteers
Sep 13 2005 // American Physicians Assurance Corp., a provider of medical malpractice insurance in the Midwest and New Mexico, announced that premiums will be waived for the company’s insured physicians who volunteer with the...
