How to buy medical malpractice insurance online is something that is asked often by our future physician clients. Is it safe? Is it effective? Can I actually get a lower rate and better service then the traditional med-mal insurance agent who shows up unannounced and sits in my waiting room until I have time to […]

Side Note: This is big news in regards to med mal insurance for physicians. We are big believers in physicians using technology to lower their liability risks, but we are unsure how med-mal insurance carriers will respond. We know that in today’s world, especially with Medicare reductions looming, that it’s important for physicians to use […]

Side Note: The Department of Health & Human Services released a list of its Most Wanted Fugitives for health care fraud. The individuals are not necessarily the worst offenders out there, but instead represent a cross-section of different types of individuals wanted for health care fraud by the government. Interestingly, two of the ten fugitives […]

Side Note: Here at MyMedicalMalpracticeInsurance.com, it kills us that physicians are often compelled not to say that they’re sorry to patients when errors occur –especially when doing so often avoids med mal litigation and it is what the physicians want to do. Finally, Michigan physicians may not have to worry that saying, “I’m sorry,” is […]

Side Note: Last week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius faced a barrage of questions from Senate Republicans regarding medical malpractice reform during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing. The Republicans inquired about the lack of med mal reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Disappointed by the fact that the ACA only addresses […]

Sidenote: Have you considered “going bare” –or without liability insurance? At first glance, it might seem appealing: you would save a lot of money by not having to pay liability insurance premiums and you are a far less attractive malpractice target, as your pockets (and your practice’s) are significantly less deep than your insurance company’s […]

Side Note: To our disappointment, the bipartisan House bill, Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act, which would provide significant, sweeping med mal reform, is not likely to be passed in the Senate. If you follow med mal reform, you know that this is nothing new. The bill, which has been introduced and passed […]

Side Note: A recent study published in the Annals of Surgery reviewed surgical data from the largest medical liability insurer in the Netherlands. The study, which reviewed surgeries from 2004-2005 in which 294 successful med mal claims were made, identified the main reasons for the claims and then compared them to a surgical checklist called […]

Side Note: As many news and media organizations like to do at the end of a year and the beginning of a new one, Time magazine has issued their Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2010. The list covers many different areas of medicine from pharmacology to cellular biology to infertility. One of the most interesting […]