For the first time, a New Hampshire jury has disregarded a medical malpractice screening panel’s unanimous finding of no fault, ruling in favor of the plaintiff against a cardiologist sued for thrice failing to diagnose a lesion on his 36-year-old patient’s heart. The patient died of heart disease shortly after his last visit to the […]

We love advances in technology over at My Medical Malpractice Insurance. Especially when they can help doctors lower their risks and speed up complex surgeries that saves lives. Science Translational Medicine published a study conducted at the medical school at Imperial College London about the uses of a new tool called the  iKnife last week. […]

Since 1975, California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA) has been the golden standard of medical liability tort reforms. Signed into law during the nation’s first medical malpractice insurance premium crisis, MICRA instituted a cap of $250,000 on non-economic (pain-and-suffering) damages, capped the percentage of an award available for attorney fees, shortened the statute of […]

By Jennifer Lewis When was the last time you learned that one of the patients under your care had overdosed on a prescription drug? Deaths as a result of overdose have risen for the eleventh year in a row according to federal data, with the majority of these related to prescribed drugs. The latest figures […]

I recently came across an interesting post on SorryWorksBlog.net that discussed reforming the National Practitioner Data Bank (and state licensure boards) to acknowledge physicians who make an error, disclose it, apologize and offer compensation. Because of the growing disclosure movement, the organization would like to see that physicians who disclose errors be treated differently from […]

This is a really interesting Ted Talk by a young surgeon named Peter Attia. He has now made it his mission in life to investigate the relationship between nutrition, obesity and diabetes. He asks medical professionals around the world to have an open mind about what we know and what we don’t know.

Every health care provider should learn about Josie King and her story. A lot of times, when we think of medical errors that result in death, we think of errors that are major and dramatic. But this was not the case with Josie King. Josie King was an 18-month old little girl who died from […]

With the Patient Protection & Affordable Act continuing its squeeze of the American healthcare system into one that offers a greater number of citizens access to quality, affordable medical care while reigning in the overall costs of care to the economy, the Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA) focused its 2013 Annual Medical Liability Conference on […]

A few doctors around the country are taking a less traditional route and moving to a cash only based practice. They say that this helps cut out the middle man and allows more time with the patient. An interesting concept for sure, but can it survive in an ACA world? Another question to ask is […]