December 2019 Newsletter

Personal injury attorneys target definition of a patient With courts increasingly reviewing physician liability for patients they have never treated, the answer to what defines a patient could shape the future of access to care. The issue stems from a recent case in...

Hospitals Need to Brace for Upward Trend in Malpractice Claims

SOURCE: Healthleaders There has been a dramatic upward trend in hospital medical malpractice claims over the past two decades, according to a new report from Aon and Beazley Group. Over the past two decades, the medical professional liability insurance marketplace has...

November 2019 Newsletter

Iowa’s liability climate is changing – for worse The Iowa Medical Society (IMS) highlighted how the state’s medical liability climate is shifting and threatening access to care in the Fall edition of Iowa Medicine. In 2017, a series of reforms including certificate of...