Posts tagged "physicians"

Aug 6, 2021
Missouri Supreme Court Upholds Noneconomic Damage Cap for Medical Liability Verdicts

Our Take: Caps on noneconomic damages help limit the amount of megaverdicts that we’ve been seeing increase in regularity all over the country. Megaverdicts add an extra layer to how malpractice insurance companies and their underwriters determine how much a physician pays for malpractice insurance coverage. Megaverdicts typically are any verdicts that exceed $50 million […]

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Dec 16, 2019
Is New Mexico’s Compensatory Damage Cap the Next to Fall?

Arguments in favor of and against New Mexico’s medical malpractice compensatory damage cap were made last month, and now the question as to whether it is constitutional rests in the hands of five justices on the state’s Supreme Court. The compensatory cap limits economic and noneconomic damages, but not medical costs or punitive damages, to […]

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Apr 26, 2016
Junior doctors go on strike in the UK. Could you see this happening here?

It’s been almost a full day since junior doctors in the UK decided to walk out and strike. It’s important to note what junior doctors actually are: The term junior doctor is a little misleading. It covers medics who have just graduated from medical school through to those who have more than a decade of […]

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