Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Compensation Reform Regulations Move Forward On Schedule
Sep 14 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is on track to meet its Nov. 1 deadline for adopting emergency regulations that will allow medical provider networks to begin...
Huntington Named Palmer & Cay Southwest Health Care Practice Leader
Sep 13 2004 // James B. Meathe, president and chief operating officer for Palmer & Cay, announced that Richard Huntington has joined Palmer & Cay in the position of Southwest Health Care Practice Leader. Huntington will be...
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco
Sep 13 2004 // Laying a Foundation for Long Term Success Being first is not a new thing to Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who was sworn in on January 12, 2004 as the first female Governor of Louisiana. Twenty years earlier, at the beginning...
Advocate, MD Insurance of the Southwest Enters Texas Malpractice Insurance Market
Sep 8 2004 // Announcing its entrance into the Texas malpractice insurance market, Advocate, MD Insurance of the Southwest said its improved coverage options and excellent rates are proof that tort reform efforts ushered in last year...
Proponents Laud Success of Medical Liability Reforms
Sep 6 2004 // It’s been a year since the voters of Texas passed Proposition 12, which ushered in reforms designed to lower the cost of medical liability insurance for doctors and health care institutions, and its supporters are...
Wash. Physicians Launch Campaign for Liability Reform
Sep 1 2004 // Frustrated by the lack of action on meaningful medical liability reform, physicians today launched an initiative campaign designed to break the gridlock in Olympia over sensible reform of medical liability laws. Doctors...
W. Va. Okays Rate Hike for Medical Malpractice Insurer
Aug 31 2004 // The Associated Press reported that an insurance company that had threatened to stop offering medical malpractice coverage to doctors in West Virginia has been granted a 9.5 percent rate increase, according to Gov. Bob...
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
Aug 26 2004 // Laying a Foundation for Long Term Success By Stephanie K. Jones Being first is not a new thing to Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who was sworn in on Jan. 12, 2004, as the first female Governor of Louisiana. Twenty years...
Md. Senate President Calls for Med-Mal Special Session; Supports $50M State Fund to Freeze Rates
Aug 25 2004 // Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. called again for a special session on medical malpractice this fall. Miller (D-Calvert) said in an interview with the Washington Post that he would like to create a state...
THA: Texas Hospitals See Benefits of Liability Reform
Aug 24 2004 // The Texas Hospital Association (THA) reported that nearly a year after the passage of sweeping medical liability reform, Texas hospitals are seeing a significant drop in their liability costs and using the savings to...
Kentucky Governor Fletcher Keeps Commonwealth in Stride
Aug 23 2004 // Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R) has had a busy last few weeks. Between weighing in on the AIK Comp Fund issue in the Commonwealth and seeing to it that residents get the help they need from storms that rumbled through...
OREGON MALPRACTICE DAMAGE CAP HEADS TO BALLOT:
Aug 23 2004 // A proposed constitutional amendment to limit pain and suffering awards to $500,000 in Oregon medical malpractice cases will be on the ballot this November. Physicians said that rising malpractice insurance costs have made...
Maryland Pursues Unauthorized Med-Mal Insurers
Aug 20 2004 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. has moved to end what his agency says is a comprehensive scheme of medical malpractice fraud aimed, particularly, at women’s clinics. Redmer issued a cease and...
AIA Backs Medicare-Based Fee Schedule for Tenn. Workers’ Comp Medical Services
Aug 20 2004 // In testimony Friday before the Tennessee Department of Labor’s Medical Care and Cost Containment Committee, the American Insurance Association (AIA) endorsed a Medicare-based, objective fee schedule for provider...
NSU Chooses Miller to Lead Healthcare Division
Aug 17 2004 // National Specialty Underwriters Inc. (NSU) announced the hiring of Leslie Miller as senior vice president in charge of NSU Healthcare, a division of the company that specializes in the wholesale of medical professional...
Oregon Malpractice Damage Cap Heads to Ballot
Aug 3 2004 // Victims of medical malpractice would be denied their rights by a limit on damage awards, foes of the idea say, while advocates say the rising cost of malpractice insurance is keeping doctors out of Oregon. For the second...
Oregon Newspaper: Documents Detail Goldschmidt Work for SAIF
Aug 2 2004 // New documents reviewed by a Salem newspaper map out how former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt’s deal-brokering helped shape a plan on medical malpractice insurance for obstetricians in rural Oregon. The former governor was...
Senate Passes Confidential Medical Error Reporting System
Jul 27 2004 // Legislation approved by the U.S. Senate would set up a confidential, voluntary reporting system under which doctors and hospitals could disclose information on medical errors without fear of legal repercussions. Sponsors...
IHA: Illinoisans Need Legislative Action on Medical Liability Reform
Jul 23 2004 // Despite reported overwhelming support by the public and rank-and-file legislators for meaningful reforms to address Illinois’ medical liability crisis, legislators are reportedly being presented with a proposal...
Fla. Sen. Bill Nelson Continues to Fly New Missions for Sunshine State
Jul 23 2004 // Bill Nelson Florida Senator As his bio notes growing up as a child, Florida Senator Bill Nelson never imagined that one day he would both catapult into space from a NASA launch site just miles from his grandfather’s...
