According to a new report from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, the number of reported Pennsylvania medical malpractice claims in 2011 is at least 40 percent lower from the state’s high water mark of 2000 to 2002. This is the fourth consecutive year that the number of claims has been at least 40 percent […]

Every year around this time, the agents and MyMedicalMalpracticeInsurance.com field requests for short-term med mal ins coverage for all types of medical students, including foreign medical students. Luckily for our clients, this type of insurance is readily available, and can be low-cost. Today we will specifically focus on med mal ins for students and med […]

Editor’s note: Today’s blogpost is the first of a two-part series on how the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act could open market possibilities for more personalized medicine. The article it originates from was initially published in the April 2012 issue of Medical Liability Monitor, the industry’s premier source for consistent, reliable coverage and fresh […]

We have written a lot here about technology and how it can make your practice more efficient and yet also make it more vulnerable. Technology is no longer just electronic medical records. As physicians and other health care providers come to reply on portable electronic devices more and more to run their practice and take […]

Sidenote: This announcement is from the American Conference Institute and our media partner, Medical Liability Monitor. If you would like to subscribe to Medical Liability Monitor, please click here. On June 27-28, the American Conference Institute (ACI) will be hosting its 11th Annual Advanced Forum on Obstetric Malpractice at the Union League of Philadelphia, which […]

A new study of call into question the commonly held belief that Texas’s 2003 tort reform not only lowered medical malpractice insurance premiums, but also attracted an influx of doctors to serve the state’s more rural patients The 2003 Texas tort reforms are legendary in medical malpractice insurance circles. At the heart of the reforms […]

Although it’s one of the largest states from the med mal ins premium point of view, New York can be a very frustrating state when looking for med mal ins. Doctors have limited choices for New York med mal ins and the state needs to see some reform in order to have a more competitive […]

Last month, the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), joined by six healthcare organizations, announced the launch of a new initiative to improve the commonwealth’s medical liability system. The new alliance collectively created what it refers to as the Roadmap to Reform, an alternative approach to medical liability rooted in the process of Disclosure, Apology and Offer […]

A recently released study of all medical malpractice payments made in 2011 indicates that six states accounted for more than half of all medical malpractice indemnifications. The analyzed data came from the National Practitioner Data Bank That is an astonishing statistic. Which six states accounted for more than half of all medical malpractice indemnity payments […]