Rodric J. Hurdle-Bradford

One of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic era is the mass acceptance of telemedicine as a vital part of healthcare delivery, as it quickly transformed from a luxury service to a necessity for the last four years. But with the increased use of telemedicine comes an increase of exposure to malpractice lawsuits, especially with More

As M&A season begins, adjoining companies often get preoccupied with personnel issues, updates to executive and organizational charts, and deciding on division and corporate headquarters, while not paying sufficient attention to new insurance requirements and in particular creating a new or updated current directors and officers (D&O) policy. If your business is currently in M&A More

On April 28, a major change occurred in California’s midterm elections in November as the state’s legislators, the state’s doctors’ lobby and several advocacy organizations announced an agreement to keep a proposed measure to increase medical malpractice awards from the standard $250,000 limit that was implemented nearly 50 years ago in 1975. The California Medical More

In April, the Florida House of Representatives showed a rare move of bipartisanism when they passed a bill that would allow the parents of single adult children without any children or dependents to receive noneconomic damages in medical malpractice claims. The bill, formally known as House Bill 6011, passed by nearly 100 votes and revises More

As the domestic health care and law industries try to find a post-pandemic normal, medical malpractice firms are trying to look into their personal crystal balls to identify what the medical litigation landscape and juries may look like for the rest of the decade. Law, pop culture and the pandemic A generation of the domestic More

Recent analysis from the American Medical Association (AMA) confirmed what industry professionals already knew: medical liability insurance premiums have increased after a decade of pricing stability. The AMA report detailed that between 2010 and 2018 the amount of premiums that increased was always between 12% and 17%; however, that number jumped to 26.5% in 2019 More

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, many offices are seeing an increase of medical liability insurance providers when it comes time for renewal, and they are exploring all options. Now of course all options are not quality options, and the increased quantity of premium providers has drowned out the characteristics of quality premium plans. To make sure More