Medical News and Medical Liability Conference
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
Rodric J. Hurdle-Bradford