side note: WISCONSIN DOES NOT ALLOW DAMAGES FOR WITNESSING MALPRACTICE: The Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed a bystander’s medical malpractice award for emotional distress, ruling that the state’s medical malpractice law does not allow bystanders to seek damages for emotional distress. The high court’s 5-2 decision tossed out a lower court’s $200,000 award to a father […]

side note: It will be interesting to see what develops in the state of New York b/c of this. There are some serious Medical Malpractice Insurance issues in that state that really need to be addressed by the government. BusinessInsurance.comby Roberto Ceniceros NEW YORK—Acting New York Insurance Superintendent Kermitt Brooks on Wednesday said he will […]

Side Note: Illinois patients now have another way to research their physicians. Similar to a database that was taken offline last year, a new searchable online database was launched Wednesday, October 19 called, Physician Profile. Included in the database are all of Illinois’ 46,000 licensed physicians and surgeons with information about their educational background and […]

Posted by Andante Higgins http://www.cbsnews.com John McCain visited Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania, today, where doctors and nurses showed him how they’ve used technological advances to deliver a higher quality of care while bringing costs down. McCain heard stories from a cancer survivor and woman whose difficult pregnancy was successfully treated by specialists here. […]

The family of Prince has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a doctor in which the family feels he failed Price by failing to treat his opioid addiction and providing him with narcotics without a proper prescription. The Minnesota lawsuit also names the physician’s former employer, North Memorial Health, Walgreens and UnityPoint Health as defendants.  […]

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by Michael Matray, editor of Medical Liability Monitor Consumer demand for convenience, access and affordability is changing how episodic-care and preventative medicine is delivered in the United States. A novelty 15 years ago, today there are more than 3,000 convenient care clinics in the United States, most located within the nation’s largest big-box retail outlets. […]

Source: WalletHub Earlier this month, personal finance site WalletHub published a report ranking the best and worst states for physicians. They based the rankings on a variety of factors, including the cost of medical malpractice insurance, the amount of malpractice award payouts per capita in the previous year and average physician wages, as well as […]

by Michael Matray, editor of Medical Liability Monitor New York’s medical malpractice insurance market was the subject of two lengthy articles last month that examined the state’s shifting competitive landscape and the questionable finances of its second-largest insurer of medical liability, Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers (PRI). In an article dated April 9, Politico New York primarily […]