Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oregon Legislature Next Arena in Malpractice Battle
Nov 15 2004 // After narrowly losing in the Nov. 2 election, Oregon doctors who pushed for a cap on jury awards in malpractice lawsuits are preparing to take their fight to another arena: the 2005 Legislature. The physicians won’t...
Interns’ Medical Errors Affected by Work Schedules
Nov 15 2004 // The rate of serious medical errors committed by first-year doctors in training in two intensive care units (ICUs) at a Boston hospital fell significantly when traditional 30-hour-in-a-row extended work shifts were...
Mo. Malpractice Claims Fall But Premiums Rise
Nov 9 2004 // The number of medical malpractice claims filed and paid is declining in Missouri, yet physicians’ premiums are rising, according to a report from the state Insurance Department. New medical malpractice claims dropped...
Study: Malpractice Caps Would Save Companies 15 Percent
Nov 8 2004 // Groups for and against capping noneconomic damage awards for medical malpractice both claimed that a Wyoming Healthcare Commission report upholds their positions. The study suggests that capping noneconomic damages at...
Maryland Seeks Funding for Med-Mal Plan
Nov 8 2004 // Democratic legislative leaders worked late last week to revive a stalled attempt to do something about the 33 percent increase in medical malpractice insurance premiums that some Maryland doctors say threatens to drive...
CARH Makes Renewed Call to Action Following Election
Nov 5 2004 // The Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Healthcare (CARH) has issued a resounding call to action in the wake of this week’s election results. Medical liability reform gained momentum on Tuesday with a successful...
Florida Doctors, Lawyers At Odds Over Effects of Malpractice Amendments
Nov 5 2004 // After years of fighting over medical malpractice, doctors and lawyers who represent victims aren’t going to declare peace just because voters approved a few new amendments in the Florida Constitution. Both groups of...
DMLR: N.C. Patients, Doctors Win with Burr Election
Nov 3 2004 // Doctors for Medical Liability Reform (DMLR) said North Carolina patients and physicians will see another supporter of national medical liability reform in the U.S. Senate come January 2005. On Tuesday, North Carolina...
AMA Pleased with Bush Re-election; Looks Forward to Pushing Forward Medical Liability Reform
Nov 3 2004 // The American Medical Association (AMA) voiced pleasure in the re-election of President George W. Bush on Wednesday. In a statement, John Nelson, AMA president, remarked: “The American Medical Association today...
Florida’s Amendment 2 Means Lawyers Will Get Less for Malpractice Cases
Nov 3 2004 // Voters handed victories to both sides Tuesday in the war between Florida doctors and lawyers, adopting a hotly contested constitutional amendment backed by Florida doctors but also endorsing two amendments pushed by...
Poll: Republicans Blame Malpractice Lawsuits for Rising Health Costs; Democrats Blame Insurers
Nov 2 2004 // Republicans were three times as likely as Democrats to blame rising health costs on malpractice lawsuits, according to a poll conducted for The (Baltimore) Sun, and Democrats were twice as likely as Republicans to blame...
Some Maryland Doctors, Irked by Costs, Consider Going ‘Bare,’ Shifting Liability to Hospitals
Nov 1 2004 // Doctors at several Maryland hospitals who are fed up with rising medical malpractice insurance costs are considering doing without the coverage, or “going bare.” The strategy, used by thousands of Florida...
PIAA Takes Stand Against Hunter’s Med-Mal Claims
Nov 1 2004 // Actuary J. Robert Hunter has reportedly published another bogus analysis of the medical malpractice insurance industry, once again using one of his front groups, Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR), as the...
Wyoming Legislator’s Letter Against Malpractice Amendments Draw Ire
Nov 1 2004 // Several residents said they were offended to receive a letter from a state legislator asking them to vote against two constitutional amendments tied to medical malpractice. Rep. Floyd Esquibel, D-Cheyenne, sent the letter...
Md. Gov.’s Med-Mal Plan Gets Frosty Reception from Senate Leader Miller; Special Session in Doubt
Oct 28 2004 // Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller this week blasted Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s latest medical malpractice plan as “a work of fiction” and “a completely different bill” from the one he, the...
Wyo. Healthcare Commission Reviews Malpractice Liability Fund Proposal
Oct 27 2004 // A consultant has drafted a plan for a medical malpractice liability fund that would attempt to reduce the rising premiums doctors pay for malpractice insurance in Wyoming. The plan was reviewed Oct. 25 by the Wyoming...
Md. Governor Files Med-Mal Measure
Oct 27 2004 // Legislation that would offer doctors immediate relief from increases in malpractice insurance premiums and hold the line on future rate hikes was presented to the Maryland General Assembly leaders this week by Gov. Robert...
Oklahoma Sees Drop in Medical Malpractice Claims But Not Rates
Oct 25 2004 // In the year since Gov. Brad Henry signed the Affordable Access to Health Care Act (Senate Bill 629), Oklahoma has seen fewer medical malpractice lawsuits, the Associated Press reported. Between July 2003 and July 2004 the...
HIGHER MALPRACTICE RATES LOOMING FOR COLORADO DOCTORS:
Oct 25 2004 // COPIC Insurance, the largest medical malpractice insurance company in Colorado, will increase rates by an average of 15.9 percent, according to the Associated Press. It is the biggest rate increase in 16 years....
Professional Liability in the Medical Arena
Oct 25 2004 // Whether a patient, a health care provider or an insurer, everyone seems to be aware of what is going on in the medical world these days. There is general agreement that health care costs are rising, more people are going...
