By M. William Salganik | Sun reporter http://www.baltimoresun.com Sitting on comfortable surpluses, Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer intends to end its participation in the state’s premium subsidy program two years early and is proposing to return $32.5 million of the $72.4 million in subsidies it has received so far. In effect, Medical Mutual Liability Insurance […]

By Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune Sergey Sargsyan has lost 80 pounds since his symptoms began more than three months ago. He’s in pain and getting weaker. Emergency room visits and surgery to remove gall stones have done little to help. Doctors say he needs a specialist to fine-tune his diagnosis. But finding one […]

http://www.insurancejournal.com Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler wants to review a large medical malpractice insurance dividend payment before it goes out. Newly-appointed Tyler said he will hold a hearing next month to review a plan by Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland to pay a $68 million dividend, a portion of which is owed […]

By Laura Hipp http://www.clarionledger.com A 15.5 percent rate cut by the largest medical malpractice insurer in Mississippi has doctors praising tort reform and hoping their ranks grow. The Medical Assurance Co. of Mississippi decided Sept. 5 to lower insurance costs for physicians in 2008. Gov. Haley Barbour, whose 2003 campaign made tort reform a cornerstone, […]

By DIANE LEVICK | Courant Staff Writer Many Connecticut doctors will pay lower premiums for malpractice insurance because of actions taken by two insurers, and another company plans to enter the market here, heating up competition. The premium decreases will range from a few percentage points to more than 20 percent, providing at least a […]

The Insurance professionals only source for News A leading Pennsylvania malpractice insurance carrier says it plans to lower its rates by an average of 11 percent next year. The Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association says the news proves the “so-called crisis” involving doctors and medical malpractice insurance rates is abating. Doctors, on the other hand, say […]

Austin Business Journal The Texas Medical Liability Trust’s governing board voted to reduce rates for Texas policyholders and pay out a dividend once policies are renewed in 2008. TMLT is the largest writer of medical malpractice insurance in Texas. The board approved a 6.5 percent rate reduction on all medical specialities and classes, effective Jan. […]

http://www.kaisernetwork.org The 500-member Florida Medical Association House of Delegates over the weekend in Hollywood, Fla., met to discuss a number of potential policy changes, with much of the focus on access to care, the Miami Herald reports. Karl Altenburger, an allergist who became FMA president over the weekend, said that the group has entered a […]

http://www.ogletreedeakins.com On June 21, Governor Phil Bredesen signed House Bill 240/Senate Bill 1688, which was the General Assembly’s response to a 2005 case in which the Tennessee Supreme Court declined to enforce a non-compete provision in an employment contract between a physician and a clinic. In Murfreesboro Medical Clinic, P.A. v. Udom, the state’s highest […]