by PPN | Jan 31, 2020 | Iowa
SOURCE: The Gazette Last summer, Marshalltown’s UnityPoint hospital shuttered its maternity ward. The year before that, Washington County Hospital in southeast Iowa did the same. These closures weren’t outliers. According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, 28...
by PPN | Dec 31, 2019 | News, Newsletter
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by PPN | Dec 20, 2019 | Minnesota, National, 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...
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...
