After the lunch break for the first day of the PIAA Medical Liability Conference, I had the opportunity to attend two more educational sessions. Following are some of the notes I compiled: • Quality Measures and Data Collection: What is the Real Impact on Patient Safety * The quality benchmarks required by the Centers for […]

The PIAA Medical Liability Conference is breaking for lunch, so I’m taking the opportunity to share my notes on the first-half of the first official day of seminars. Following is a synopsis of those I attended. Welcome and Opening Remarks • PIAA president and chief executive Brian Atchinson introduced members to the organization’s new branding […]

The 2013 Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA) Medical Liability Conference kicked-off today in Palm Desert, Calif., with its Leadership Camp. The Camp consisted of two tracks: One for those attendees new to corporate governance, offering them information and strategies they can bring back to their companies; the second track was designed for those who […]

Note: The article below first appeared in the May 2013 issue of the Medical Liability Monitor, a monthly newsletter reprting on the medical professional liability insurance and risk management industries. On the heels of last summer’s ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court that the state’s $350,000 cap on non-economic damages in medical liability lawsuits is […]

Note: The article below first appeared in the May 2013 issue of the Medical Liability Monitor, a monthly newsletter reporting on the medical professional liability insurance and risk management industries. With the American healthcare delivery system bracing itself for a deluge of new patients who will gain access to medical treatment by the end of […]

We are excited to announce that My Medical Malpractice Insurance, the nation’s leading provider of professional liability coverage for physicians and healthcare professionals, will be live blogging one of the major medical professional liability conferences in the nation.   The PLUS Medical Professional Symposium takes place April 10th and 11th. Some of the biggest names in […]

IBM’s brain child, Watson, has been best known as defeating humans on the game show Jeopardy in 2011 where it competed against Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, two of Jeopardy’s most famous contestants. Watson was made specifically to play Jeopardy by its research team headed by David Ferrucci of IBM. Since its debut on Jeopardy, […]

New insurance risks, with their associated financial risks, are major considerations for all of the parties operating in the new accountable care organization (ACO) environment, according to a panel of experts who participated in a recent webinar presented by the Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA) The webinar, which took place on February 6, featured […]

The Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA), the national insurance industry trade association representing medical professional liability (MPL) insurance companies and other entities, today issued a reminder that advance registration for its 2013 Medical Liability Conference will expire on April 12. Attendees who submit their registration prior to the April 12 deadline can save $100.  […]