by PPN | Oct 30, 2023 | Alabama, California, COVID, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, National, New York, Newsletter, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Washington
Liability reform elevated to presidential debate state Earlier this month, one presidential candidate offered up a tried and true way to improve access to patient care while lowering costs for Americans — through medical liability reform. A Wall Street Journal...
by PPN | Oct 30, 2023 | Alabama, California, Florida, latest_news, Massachusetts, National, New York, News, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington
Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies may help reduce medical errors and improve patient outcomes, but their use in health care raises liability concerns and questions around medical malpractice risks. Insurers are not yet restricting...
by PPN | Oct 30, 2017 | Arkansas, Massachusetts, National, Newsletter, Oklahoma
Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling could lead to medical lawsuit abuse Patients and physicians in Oklahoma could face a deteriorating liability climate in the coming years, as the state Supreme Court recently ruled against an effective liability reform. This setback to...
by PPN | Oct 3, 2017 | Massachusetts, National, News
Communication-and-resolution programs (CRP) at four Massachusetts hospitals led to lower medical liability costs and improvements in patient safety after adverse events, countering concerns that telling patients about errors would motivate more to file lawsuits. Led...
by PPN | Sep 29, 2017 | California, Florida, Massachusetts, National, Nevada, Newsletter
Liability concerns drive up defensive medicine, cost of care Providing treatment above what is medically necessary to fend off the threat of a lawsuit continues to be a trend – and a major driver of health care cost increases. A study of over 2100 physicians conducted...
by PPN | Sep 8, 2017 | Massachusetts, National, News
Research in patient safety and medical liability in recent years has widened our definition of these terms. Patient Safety improvement is no longer a preventive strategy to protect medical facilities from lawsuits—it is a serious and wide-reaching effort to measurably...
