http://www.namic.org The Ohio Department of Insurance has issued its second annual Ohio Medical Liability Closed Claim Report, Director Mary Jo Hudson announced. Data collected from entities providing medical malpractice coverage to Ohio health care providers and health care facilities shows a total of 4,004 medical malpractice claims were closed in 2006. Claims that generated an […]

Insurer-Physician Collaboration Improves Quality of Care, Patient Compliance, and Lowers Costs NEWARK and EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J., — A first-in-the-nation, ground breaking pilot program has produced empirical data demonstrating the effectiveness of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PC-MH), a concept of care that facilitates partnerships between individual patients and their personal physicians and — when appropriate […]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor http://features.us.reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Dr. Howard Stark’s office is quiet. Very quiet. No patients sit in his waiting room. No receptionist answers the telephone. Stark does not have a receptionist. Instead, he and his assistant Michele Norris-Bell check e-mail alerts on handheld devices and — between seeing patients […]

By Diane Ako HONOLULU — Could a new bill help stem the health care crisis in Hawaii? Many say there’s a shortage of physicians across the state because of the rising cost of medical malpractice insurance and the fear of being sued. Supporters say House Bill 3102 and Senate Bill 3024 will help Hawaii attract […]

American Physicians Capital, Inc. (APCapital) (Nasdaq:ACAP) expects to release its fourth quarter and year-end 2007 earnings on Thursday, February 7, 2008, after the market closes. The news release will also be available on APCapital’s website at http://www.apcapital.com within the For Investors section under Press Releases. A conference call to discuss fourth quarter and year-end 2007 […]

By ERIC RUTH, The News Journal http://www.delawareonline.com The state’s insurance commissioner says he won’t give up this year on several reforms that have been rebuffed by the Legislature, and will expand his agenda to include a few new causes. Outgoing Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn, who is in a Democratic primary race for lieutenant governor, said […]

http://www.arabtimesonline.com KUWAIT : Around 40 to 45 medical malpractice cases were filed against some doctors assigned at the Ministry of Health, reliable sources told Al-Jareeda indicating the Ministry won in most of these cases. The committee on the insurance to protect doctors in medical malpractice cases has agreed to send a delegation to Saudi Arabia, […]

By Alison Snyder Long Island Business News – New York Business News The high cost of medical malpractice insurance has some obstetrician/gynecologists cutting back on the scope of their business, while others are fleeing New York altogether. And Long Island hospitals are worried that the price of malpractice insurance will lead to a health-care access […]

State medical group plans to seek greater oversight By GETAHN WARD • Staff Writer Johnny Daniels has a doctor, but after feeling dizzy one afternoon last week, he went to the Take Care Health Clinic inside a Walgreens drugstore near his home in Hermitage. “It was convenient, fast, I didn’t have to wait and the […]