Declines in Maternal Death Rates Stall Amid Increases in U.S., EU February 24, 2023 By Tanaz Meghjani Declines in pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths that took place over a decade and a half have stalled since 2015, as...
Arkansas Malpractice Bill Would Restrict Trans Youth Medical Care February 15, 2023 By Andrew DeMillo LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Nearly two years after Arkansas became the first state to enact a now-blocked ban on...
Nurse Practitioner Claims Have Increased Since 2017 but COVID Effect Yet to Play Out February 14, 2023 By Jahna Jacobson The distribution and severity of nurse practitioner (NP) office practice setting claims have increased sharply since 2017, according to a...
Jury Awards Former Philadelphia Eagles Player $43.5M in Medical Malpractice Case February 14, 2023 A Philadelphia jury yesterday awarded former Philadelphia Eagles team captain Christopher Maragos $43.5 million in damages in a case of...
Conn. Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Opinion Letter Precedent February 14, 2023 By Jim Sams For more than a decade, Connecticut courts have been dismissing medical malpractice actions if the plaintiff did not submit a...
Court Tosses Wyoming Doctor’s Pain Medication Prescription Convictions February 8, 2023 A federal appeals court threw out the convictions of a Wyoming doctor accused of overprescribing powerful pain medication and ordered...
Report Says Social Inflation Adds Up to 11% to Physician Malpractice Claims January 25, 2023 By Jim Sams Social inflation accounts for 8% to 11% of all medical malpractice losses for carriers that insure physicians, according to an...
Death Claim Filed Too Late for Malpractice Reform Law, Says Pennsylvania High Court December 20, 2022 By Jim Sams The two-year statute of limitations for medical malpractice death claims applies even if the medical records available obscured the legal...
Lawsuit: 2 Wyoming Mental Patients Dead, Procedures Ignored November 16, 2022 Two Wyoming State Hospital patients died while staff at the mental health institution failed to follow procedures in a series...
California Doctor Admits Illegally Prescribing 120K Opioid Pills October 11, 2022 A Southern California doctor has pleaded guilty to writing prescriptions for more than 120,000 opioid pills over a six-year span,...