January 2, 2024
A divided Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday drew a bright line around the state’s statute of repose for medical malpractice claims, ruling in separate cases that an absolute four-year deadline to bring an action applies to both wrongful death claims …
December 6, 2023
NOW Insurance, an artificial intelligence-enabled commercial insurance platform specializing in medical professional liability coverage, recently launched coverage for physicians and physician groups in their online platform. Select brokers can now shop for and bind coverage for physician and medical group …
November 28, 2023
The Florida hospital at the center of the high-profile Maya Kowalski negligence case has asked for a new trial, alleging that the jury foreman improperly leaked information during the trial, which resulted in a $216 million verdict against the medical …
November 3, 2023
Montana’s state psychiatric hospital has been so poorly run for decades that patients are unsafe and not treated with dignity and respect, which combined with a pattern of understaffing, lack of training and neglect has hastened the deaths of two …
October 27, 2023
A poison specialist and former medical resident at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is charged with fatally poisoning his wife, a 32-year-old pharmacist who died days after she went to a hospital in August with stomach distress. Authorities say Connor Bowman, …
August 23, 2023
Most of the claims of sexual abuse and other mistreatment made in a lawsuit by dozens of former patients of a Virginia children`s hospital can move forward, a judge has ruled, rejecting arguments that many of the allegations were time-limited …
June 2, 2023
A recent report by the Medical Professional Liability Association shows the medical professional liability insurance sector’s combined ratio improved from 108.1% in 2021 to 102.2% in 2022 – marking the industry’s best performance since 2017. However, the industry still has …
May 24, 2023
When federal enforcers alleged in 2015 that New York surgeon Feng Qin had performed scores of medically unnecessary cardiac procedures on elderly patients, they decided not to pursue a time-consuming criminal case. Instead, prosecutors chose an easier, swifter legal strategy: …
May 22, 2023
More than 40 years ago, the Illinois legislature sought to reduce the number of defendants in medical malpractice actions by allowing plaintiffs to name health care providers as respondents for the purposes of discovery and convert them to defendants later …
May 17, 2023
An attorney with one of Florida’s largest insurance defense firms must pay more than $100,000 in sanctions after deliberately trying to sabotage a medical malpractice suit in order to win a mistrial, a Florida appeals court has decided. The 6th …