by PPN | Dec 20, 2019 | National
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...
by PPN | Dec 20, 2019 | Minnesota
SOURCE: American Medical Association Can physicians be held liable in cases in which they’ve never treated the patients experiencing the adverse outcome? That’s a question that is increasingly being put before the courts, and one explored during a recent education...
by PPN | Nov 26, 2019 | Connecticut, Iowa, Newsletter, Pennsylvania
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...
by PPN | Nov 26, 2019 | Connecticut
SOURCE: Hartford Business Journal Medical-malpractice insurance payouts on behalf of Connecticut hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers in 2018 hit their highest total since the state’s been tracking the data. In all, malpractice insurers, including...
by PPN | Nov 26, 2019 | Pennsylvania
SOURCE: Modern Healthcare UPMC faces a medical malpractice suit stemming from a liver transplant in 2003 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out a state law barring malpractice lawsuits after seven years. In a 4-3 decision Thursday, the state ruled that the...
