How Oregon’s Strict Liability Expansion Threatens Access to Care

by PPN | Aug 29, 2023 | latest_news, National, News, Oregon

  A pregnant woman presented at an Oregon hospital’s emergency department where the anti-nausea medication ondansetron (marketed as Zofran by GSK) was administered, and the hospital billed her. The woman then alleged the Zofran caused her child to be born with...

Medical groups: Liability may limit care for top athletes

by PPN | Jun 30, 2023 | District of Columbia, latest_news, National, New York, News

    A group of prominent medical organizations says it’s growing concerned about what they consider to be a threat to medical care for top-level athletes: increasing liability risks for doctors as salaries for those athletes rise. The American...

Malpractice Lawsuits Over Denied Abortion Care May Be on the Horizon

by PPN | Jun 30, 2023 | California, Florida, latest_news, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, National, New York, News, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas

  A year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many physicians and hospitals in the states that have restricted abortion reportedly are refusing to end the pregnancies of women facing health-threatening complications out of fear they might face criminal...

New Bill Would Provide Greater Length of Time to Sue Doctors

by PPN | Jun 30, 2023 | Colorado, Florida, latest_news, Maine, National, News, Texas, Vermont, Virginia

A bill in the Maine legislature would have the medical malpractice statute of limitations clock start running when a patient discovers the negligence, which could be years after treatment took place. And other states could follow suit with similar bills. What danger...

AMA: One in three physicians previously sued in their career

by PPN | May 31, 2023 | latest_news, National, News

CHICAGO – A new analysis (PDF) from the American Medical Association (AMA) finds the possibility of being sued during a career in medicine is very real for most doctors, which is notable given that most claims end with no finding of negligence or error. According to...

Pennsylvania must act to avert another medical liability crisis | Opinion

by PPN | May 31, 2023 | latest_news, National, News, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s physicians are experiencing a sense of déjà vu as the state appears to be heading toward another medical liability insurance crisis. The state was gripped by such a crisis approximately twenty years ago as trial lawyers pursued malpractice lawsuits by...