Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Washington All Industry Day: Associations Discuss Broker Disclosure
Feb 21 2005 // Broker disclosure, medical malpractice reform and credit scoring dominated the discussions at the Washington All Insurance Industry Day at the Capital held Feb. 10. Over 170 independent agents gathered to learn about...
N.J. Malpractice Insurer Ordered to Pay $15.3 Million
Feb 20 2005 // An insurance company for a prominent Bergen County, New Jersey eye surgeon must pay $15.3 million to cover malpractice claims made by 16 former patients, a Superior Court judge has ruled. Princeton Insurance Co. claimed an...
Insurers Hail Federal Med-Mal Reform Legislation; Continue to Support State Reforms
Feb 17 2005 // Last week, Sens. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) and John Ensign (R-Nev.) introduced federal legislation that would provide assistance to medical professionals facing skyrocketing medical liability premiums. The Help Efficient,...
Unlicensed Health Care Provider Indicted in Texas
Feb 17 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance, working in conjunction with the Collin County District Attorney’s Office, announced an indictment against Don Bauer of Plano for insurance fraud. Bauer, who had not held a valid...
Wyo. Doctors Dislike Medical Review Panel Bill
Feb 17 2005 // The proposal being considered by Wyoming lawmakers to create a medical review panel to help weed out frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits might do more harm than good, according to an official with a doctors’ trade...
Pa.’s Insurance Chief Koken Performs Balancing Act at Home and On the Road for NAIC
Feb 16 2005 // The nickname probably won’t be showing up anytime soon on the state’s license plates but Pennsylvania could be the Land of Stable Insurance Markets. Not that things are perfect but, according to Insurance...
R.I. Lawmaker Seeks Med-Mal Rate Controls
Feb 14 2005 // Rhode Island Rep. Fausto C. Anguilla (D-Dist. 68, Bristol, Warren) has introduced legislation aimed at reining in high and rising malpractice insurance premiums. His bill, the Fair Insurance Act of 2005, would prohibit...
Nevada Med-Mal Rates Stabilizing
Feb 14 2005 // Approval of a 2004 ballot question and action by state lawmakers two years before that are stabilizing medical malpractice insurance rates in Nevada, legislators were told recently. Question 3, the Keep Our Doctors in...
Two Plead Guilty in Big Virginia Insurance Fraud Case Involving Former Malpractice Reciprocal
Feb 11 2005 // Two former top officers of collapsed Reciprocal of America are scheduled for sentencing in June for their roles in what a federal prosecutor called one of Virginia’s biggest insurance fraud cases. Kenneth R....
Alliance: Patient Care Affected as Battle with Medical Liability Reform Continues
Feb 10 2005 // The Alliance of Specialty Medicine testified Thursday about the devastating effects the medical liability crisis is having on patient access to specialty healthcare and urged the Congress to pass medical liability reform...
Conn. Gov. Rell’s Med-Mal Proposal Skips Damage Caps Unless Rates Fail to Drop 15%
Feb 9 2005 // Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has revealed a variety of proposals contained in her budget that are designed to help keep medical malpractice insurance affordable and ensure that access to health care is not...
Commissioner Diane Koken’s Balancing Act in Pennsylvania …
Feb 7 2005 // State Boasts Stable Markets While Placing New Emphasis on Consumer Advocacy The nickname probably won’t be showing up anytime soon on the state’s license plates but Pennsylvania could be the Land of Stable...
CALIF.’S STATE FUND IMPLEMENTS NEW REFORM MEASURE:
Feb 7 2005 // State Compensation Insurance Fund announced the establishment of an enhanced Medical Provider Network that will assure the provision of rapid access to medical treatment for injured workers. The network expands on State...
ACIC Supports Medical Provider Network Regulations
Feb 2 2005 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) supports the adoption of newly developed state regulations that implement the Medical Provider Networks (MPN) provision of California’s workers’...
RGI Insurance Unveils New Web Site
Feb 2 2005 // Laguna Hills, Calif.-based RGI Insurance Services, one of California¹s largest medical malpractice insurance agencies, announced the grand opening of its new Web site: http://www.RGIinsurance.com. RGI Executive Vice...
Poll Says Most Americans Back Medical Liability Reform
Feb 2 2005 // A new survey released by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) reportedly found almost three-quarters of Americans support legislation to reform the nation’s medical liability system that is driving up...
Malpractice Bill Tightens Rules: Clears Ga. Senate, Headed for House
Feb 1 2005 // In an effort to try to drive down insurance premiums for doctors, the Georgia Senate has approved tighter rules for people trying to sue doctors for malpractice. According to the Associated Press, the vote came after the...
N.J. Lawyers Sue to Scrap Med-Mal Insurance Fee
Jan 30 2005 // The New Jersey Legislature could have seen this coming. It enacted a law requiring the state’s lawyers, and many doctors, to pay $75 a year for three years to help doctors in high-risk specialties pay for malpractice...
Md. HMOs Hike Rates to Cover Med-Mal Tax
Jan 27 2005 // As some had predicted, health insurers in Maryland plan to raise their rates to cover a newly enacted two percent tax on HMO premiums. The tax was a focal point of a bitter battle between Gov. Robert Ehrlich and state...
2005 Ga. General Assembly to Consider Medical Liability Reform
Jan 24 2005 // Storm clouds are looming over medical liability reform legislation about to be introduced in the 2005 Georgia General Assembly which would make it harder for insurance companies to raise their rates and thus, supposedly...
