Malpractice news and information

A state court has ruled in favor of healthcare providers who say Pennsylvania officials made them pay too much money into a medical malpractice insurance fund. The Commonwealth Court ruled the state was wrong to require doctors and other providers to contribute to a reserve when the fund carried...
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The AMA has issued a strong criticism of the proposed 2014 Medicare physician-fee schedule, and also fired back against attacks on its Medicare physician payment advisory panel.
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Medical journals and healthcare publications may soon notice more readers taking deep research dives into their archives looking for old studies, reports and articles on defensive medicine. That's because California's landmark 1975 Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act—which limits pain and...
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A Verona, Wis. woman who won a $1.8 million jury award for her husband's death in a lawsuit against a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctor is challenging a cap on damages against state-employed doctors, which limits the payment to $250,000.
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The families of two Chicago residents are suing Sacred Heart Hospital, alleging that their relatives were given unnecessary procedures that led to their deaths at the now-shuttered Chicago hospital.
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A spine surgeon in the Cincinnati area has been charged with fraudulently billing Medicare and other health benefit programs for millions of dollars after subjecting patients to unnecessary operations.
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The most common reason patients give for suing their doctors is a delay or failure to diagnose a disease, such as cancer, a new study finds. The study, which reviewed information on medical malpractice claims against primary-care doctors in the U.S., Australia, France and Canada, found that between...
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After years of arguing that the rules to prevent overuse of cardiac stents were too vague, Dr. Elie Korban of Jackson, Tenn., has agreed to settle a civil whistle-blower case that accuses him of manipulating Medicare patients' charts in ways that would justify the costly cardiac interventions.
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The Florida Medical Association and Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott are describing two medical malpractice bills Scott signed this week as big victories for physicians and for business.
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The first Missouri doctor to receive an emergency suspension in at least 25 years can practice medicine again, with some restrictions. The license of the Jefferson City cardiologist had been suspended in November when he was accused of unnecessarily placing stents in patients' coronary arteries.
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