http://dealscape.thedealblogs.com The Doctors Co. followed an aggressive prescription for growth Tuesday. The Napa, Calif.-based private physician-owned medical malpractice insurer reached an agreement to acquire publicly traded SCPIE Holdings Inc., also a major healthcare liability insurance provider, for approximately $281 million in cash. Doctors is offering $28 per share in cash, which represents a 27% premium […]

http://home.businesswire.com SCPIE Holdings Inc. (NYSE:SKP), a major provider of healthcare liability insurance, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by The Doctors Company, a leading physician-owned medical malpractice carrier, for $28.00 per share in cash, or an aggregate purchase price of approximately $281 million. The $28.00 per share in […]

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ US doctors may not have time to be out of the office with colleagues playing golf anymore, but they might be found clicking away online (on a social networking site) instead. And the demise of doctors’ weekday golf availability and their time on Sermo.com, the US social networking site for physicians, are very much […]

By Joe Fahy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When she heard that her family physician, Dr. Joel Warshaw, was scaling back the size of his medical practice to provide better service, Mary Cindrich was immediately interested. Beginning Jan. 1, he is starting the area’s first “concierge” internal medical practice for adults and older children. A local pediatrician, Dr. […]

By Judith Graham | Tribune staff reporter Your doctor probably knows it. Medical organizations certainly do. But most patients have no idea. The annual physical examination — that encounter when a physician looks in your throat, listens to your heart, pokes your abdomen, checks your reflexes and tests your blood — is no longer a […]

By LIZ FREEMAN http://www.bonitanews.com Florida doctors may be getting a break with their medical malpractice insurance, an analysis by the state Office of Insurance Regulation shows. But that doesn’t necessarily mean their battle with exhorbitant premiums is over or that the state’s reputation as a hostile medical malpractice climate is in the past, according to […]

Insurers in several other states cut rates or plan to keep them stable for 2008. By Amy Lynn Sorrel, AMNews staff. http://www.ama-assn.org While physicians in some states will see a break in their medical liability premiums next year, Maryland insurance officials are questioning a proposal by the state’s largest medical liability insurance carrier to issue […]

Baltimore Business Journal – by Sue Schultz Staff http://www.bizjournals.com/ Doctors practicing in Maryland are calling for a reduction in their medical malpractice premiums following a decision by the state’s largest medical liability insurer to give back $32.5 million in state funds that would have gone toward lowering physician’s malpractice rates. Dr. Carol Ritter, a Towson […]

By Mark Hachman http://www.pcmag.com At a gathering of healthcare providers in Washington D.C on Thursday morning, Microsoft is expected to launch HealthVault, an online repository where users can store health-related information. As the name suggests, the HealthVault site is designed to be an online, encrypted vault, where U.S. users can store and manage their health […]