by PPN | Feb 26, 2021 | National
SOURCE: Medical Economics Medical Economics® sat down with David Feldman, M.D., chief medical officer of The Doctors Company Group, the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, to discuss strategies for physicians to protect themselves from...
by PPN | Feb 26, 2021 | Alabama, Iowa, Missouri, National, Newsletter
Preventing pandemic liability risks Already a worry for physicians and health care providers, the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded liability risks – and the effects remain to be seen. An interview with David Feldman, MD, chief medical officer of The Doctors Company,...
by PPN | Jan 29, 2021 | National, Newsletter, Pennsylvania
Likelihood of liability lawsuits in the age of COVID-19 Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, liability protections for health care providers remain unresolved at the federal level. Health care and business groups, including the HCLA and its member organizations,...
by PPN | Jan 29, 2021 | National
SOURCE: State of Reform Governor Doug Ducey today extended an executive order giving frontline health care workers protection from civil liability claims. This is the third time Ducey has renewed the “Good Samaritan” protections for health workers, having originally...
by PPN | Jan 29, 2021 | National
SOURCE: Medscape Even if patients and families brought COVID-19 cases to them, plaintiff attorneys say they are leery of taking them because judges and jurors who have lived through this pandemic and know the ordeals of healthcare providers are unlikely to be...
by PPN | Dec 23, 2020 | National, Newsletter
HCLA continues push for COVID-19 liability protections 2020 was another active year for HCLA advocacy. Although this year’s final COVID-19 stimulus legislation failed to include liability protections for healthcare providers on the front lines of the COVID-19...
