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Latest Medical Liability News & Research - American Medical …

(9 days ago) WEBNew medical liability insurance offering prices risk more accurately. Amid rising premiums, AMA Insurance unveils plan that better meets coverage needs while lowering the cost for practicing physicians. Stay on top of all developments related to medical liability. Browse the AMA’s latest coverage on research, issues, and cases on …

https://www.ama-assn.org/topics/medical-liability

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5 cases where AMA has fiercely defended medical liability reforms

(7 days ago) WEBNotice-of-intent requirements provide balance in courts. Michigan law is clear on what a notice of intent (NOI) requires, the AMA Litigation Center and Michigan State Medical Society told the state Supreme Court in a brief they filed in a case asking the court to consider whether sending a NOI letter addressed to the health care system—rather …

https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/sustainability/5-cases-where-ama-has-fiercely-defended-medical-liability

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AHLA - Health Care Liability and Litigation - American …

(2 days ago) WEBThe Health Care Liability and Litigation Practice Group addresses issues that encompass all areas of potential liability that affect health care providers, suppliers, and manufacturers, and keeps its …

https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/practice-groups/practice-groups/health-care-liability-and-litigation

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The Medical Liability Crisis ACS - The American College of Surgeons

(5 days ago) WEBFederal Taxpayers Are Paying the Liability Crisis Bill. The Federal Government–through its funding of Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs—pays an additional $28-$47.5 billion per year for health care due to the costs of medical liability coverage and defensive medicine. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, …

https://www.facs.org/advocacy/federal-legislation/liability/guide-to-liability-reform/the-medical-liability-crisis/

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Healthcare Management Liability Market Conditions - Gallagher US

(Just Now) WEBJohn Ergastolo. Area Executive Vice President, Nonprofit and Management Liability Practice. Chicago, IL. (312) 803-7426. Insights into the healthcare management liability market conditions, what our experts are watching and what to look for in 2022 as the market continues to remain challenging.

https://www.ajg.com/us/news-and-insights/2022/jan/market-conditions-healthcare-management-liability/

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Understanding Liability Risk from Using Health Care Artificial

(2 days ago) WEBThe authors review challenges arising in malpractice litigation related to software errors to inform health care organizations and physicians about liability risk from AI adoption and about

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMhle2308901

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Exploring Liability Risks of Using AI Tools in Patient Care

(3 days ago) WEBResearch led by Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, professor of law and health policy, is designed to provide some clarity regarding liability. AI software has not yet appeared in legal decisions with much frequency, so Mello and her co-author, JD-PhD candidate Neel Guha, analyzed more than 800 tort cases involving both AI and conventional software in

https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/exploring-liability-risks-using-ai-tools-patient-care

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Understanding Key Takeaways Liability Risk from Healthcare AI

(5 days ago) WEBsupport healthcare organizations, physicians, patients, and policymakers as they weigh the potential benefits against the liability risks of AI use in medicine, while helping them navigate evolving liability issues to ensure the safe adoption of AI tools. Introduction There is sparse case law pertaining to AI-related liability in healthcare.

https://hai.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/2024-02/Liability-Risk-Healthcare-AI.pdf

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Protecting Clinicians From Civil Liability During a Public Health

(3 days ago) WEBDuring “normal” times, many health care clinicians report unrealistically high expectations from the larger health care system. What about during emergency circumstances or in the 2020 case, a pandemic? Are the same unrealistic expectations or even the standard expectations upheld or are they relaxed?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205712/

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Medical liability costs in U.S. pegged at 2.4 percent of annual …

(6 days ago) WEBIn an effort to separate fact from fiction—and to provide the first academic study of medical liability system costs— a comprehensive analysis from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that medical liability costs totaled about 2.4% of annual health care spending in the United States, or $55.6 billion per year in 2008.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/medical-liability-costs-us/

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Healthcare Quality: Medical Errors and Liability - AJMC

(3 days ago) WEBPrescribing mistakes appear in 7.6% of outpatient prescriptions, which added up to 228 million errors in 2004. In 2007, approximately 25% of elderly patients received high-risk medications. 2

https://www.ajmc.com/view/healthcare-quality-medical-errors-and-liability

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Liability of Health Care Professionals and Institutions Duri - LWW

(6 days ago) WEBAlthough many other revolutionary changes have been made by this law (e.g., in the field of hospital risk management), the aforementioned principles have had the widest and strongest impacts on the medical community. 4–6. On May 12, 2020, a symposium titled “Liability of healthcare professionals and institutions during COVID-19 pandemic

https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2020/12000/Liability_of_Health_Care_Professionals_and.33.aspx

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Malpractice Liability and Health Care Quality - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBMalpractice claims payments measure, specified at county level, calculated as indemnity plus defense costs divided by number of years in practice in 1977–1983. Birth outcomes: fetal death; low Apgar score; death within 5 days of birth; longer-term infant death; death or permanent impairment at age 5. Physician, county.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7402204/

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Product liability cases to watch in 2023 Reuters

(7 days ago) WEBPlaintiffs allege that Meta Platforms Inc's Instagram and Facebook, ByteDance Ltd's TikTok and other social media platforms lead to addiction and poor mental health outcomes in teens, including

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/product-liability-cases-watch-2023-2022-12-30/

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Health Care Transactions—Mitigating Risk in a Pandemic Through …

(6 days ago) WEBThe pandemic brought a host of new angles to the health care transactions world, but fundamentally, whether the buyer purchases the assets or the stock, in most health care transactions it is difficult to fully avoid liability for the historical actions of the seller. As discussed, this was exacerbated by the pandemic in unexpected ways.

https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/content-library/connections-magazine/article/bee64be8-740f-4c68-b0ba-a76d89eac570/Health-Care-Transactions-Mitigating-Risk-in-a-Pand

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Pfizer Settles More Than 10,000 Cancer Suits in Bid to - AllSides

(6 days ago) WEBPfizer Settles More Than 10,000 Cancer Suits in Bid to Reduce Potential Liability. As almost everyone knows, the manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines are immune from lawsuits until later this year. In February of 2020, then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar invoked the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, or …

https://www.allsides.com/news/2024-05-24-0815/healthcare-pfizer-settles-more-10000-cancer-suits-bid-reduce-potential

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Steward Health Care bankruptcy could 'disrupt care for patients'

(6 days ago) WEBThe amendment would also create a Healthcare Provider Liability and Patient Protection Fund, seeded with $200,000, for Massachusetts to receive money from fines, penalties, sanctions and

https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/healthcare/2024/05/22/steward-health-care-ma-hospitals-bankruptcy-brockton-good-sam-taunton-morton-fall-river-saint-annes/73805460007/

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Understanding Medical Liability SpringerLink

(3 days ago) WEBAbstract. Medical liability is liability for damage inflicted to a patient by a health service provider. In comparison to criminal responsibility of physicians, civil law liability of health service providers (medical liability) is more important because of the number of cases and financial impact of damages on the health-care systems

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-642-32338-6_53

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As health system earnings go up, health insurance stocks go down …

(7 days ago) WEBDemand from aging Baby Boomers is keeping people in doctor’s offices, and health care providers are continuing to build capacity post-Covid. Those trends — the same ones that tanked health

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/20/hospitals-strong-first-quarter-trim-health-insurance-margins/

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Oracle's $28B Gamble On Cerner's AI-Driven Health Records …

(7 days ago) WEBThe global AI in healthcare market is expected to reach $148.4 billion by 2029, presenting a significant opportunity for AI companies like Oracle to drive innovation and transformation in the sector.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/oracle-s-28b-gamble-on-cerner-s-ai-driven-health-records-system-backfires/ar-BB1mIiZ2

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Client Alert: Immunity from Liability to Hospital Under the NJ

(6 days ago) WEBAPPELLATE DIVISION EXTENDS ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY TO HOSPITAL UNDER THE NEW JERSEY CHARITABLE IMMUNITY ACT By: Brian M. Foley, Esq. and Peter A. Marra, Esq. a member of the firm’s Health Care Practice Group, at [email protected] FLORHAM PARK 220 Park Avenue PO Box 991 Florham Park, NJ …

https://www.spsk.com/018EE5/assets/files/News/Client%20Alert.%20%20NJ%20Charitable%20Immunity%20Act%20(01352126).PDF

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How the Ascension cyberattack is disrupting care at hospitals - NPR

(Just Now) WEBWith IT systems down, staff at Ascension have to use manual processes they left behind some 20 years ago. It's the latest in a string of attacks on health care systems that house private patient data.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/05/23/1253011397/how-the-ascension-cyberattack-is-disrupting-care-at-hospitals

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New Florida laws for liposuction, BBLs and surgery centers - Miami …

(6 days ago) WEBLiability coverage for butt lifts. New law: Doctors performing gluteal fat grafting, the medical term for Brazilian butt lifts, have to have professional liability coverage of at least $250,000

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article288574334.html

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Ascension Hospitals Reel From Cyberattack, Causing Patient Care …

(1 days ago) WEBAscension, one of the nation’s largest medical systems with 140 hospitals in 19 states, has yet to recover from a large-scale cyberattack earlier this month. Lauren Justice for The New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/health/cyberattack-ascension-hospitals-patient-data.html

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OSHA News Release - Region 2 - Occupational Safety and Health

(5 days ago) WEBOSHA’s coronavirus response webpage offers extensive resources for addressing safety and health hazards during the evolving coronavirus pandemic. Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workplaces for their employees. OSHA's role is to help ensure these …

https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/region2/09112020

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Insurance business acquires health care liability agency

(9 days ago) WEBA Tinton Falls-based independent insurance agency has acquired one based in Mountainside, it announced Tuesday. World Insurance Associates LLC, which offers personal and business insurance solutions specializing in transportation, hospitality, self-storage and more, is bolstering its offerings with the deal for the Joseph A. Britton …

https://www.roi-nj.com/2019/04/30/finance/insurance-business-acquires-health-care-liability-agency/

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There are now 25 states with bans on trans health care for minors

(7 days ago) WEBEmbed. Transcript. With the governor of South Carolina's signature Tuesday, there are now 25 states with laws on the books banning trans health care for minors. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Half of all U.S

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/22/1252987492/there-are-now-25-states-with-bans-on-trans-health-care-for-minors

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South Africa's National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill: Why it is - BBC

(6 days ago) WEBThe DA says it will institute legal action in a bid to stop the scheme being implemented. It says it stands for universal health care, but the NHI will "destroy South Africa's private health-care

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1030v3p1r8o

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Did Obamacare ‘massively’ increase the cost of health care?

(1 days ago) WEB12 min. “Obamacare was sold on a lie. It massively increased the cost of health care in America.”. — former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), in a video for America First Policy Institute

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/13/did-obamacare-massively-increase-cost-health-care/

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Florida’s 125% Surge in Property-Insurance Bills Sows Havoc

(6 days ago) WEBWhile climate change has pushed commercial-property insurance premiums up nationwide, few places have been hit harder than Florida. In the five-year period ending 2023, costs surged 125%. Last

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-20/florida-hurricanes-create-expensive-property-insurance-threaten-senior-care

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Liability Insurance For Your Home Health Care Agency

(5 days ago) WEBAs a Home Health Care Agency you face two distinct types of liability exposure, Professional Liability and “Non Professional Liability”. Non Professional Liability is addressed by a policy commonly termed “General Liability” in insurance industry parlance. General Liability typically addresses exposures that result in bodily injury or

https://www.njhomehealthins.com/liability-insurance-for-your-home-health-care-agency/

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New Hilltop mental health hospital unveiled amid high care demand

(8 days ago) WEB0:45. State officials unveiled a new mental health hospital serving central Ohio on Wednesday, starting the next chapter of an eight-year project that Republican Gov. Mike DeWine called "a new era

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/healthcare/2024/05/23/hilltop-mental-health-hospital-care-demand-columbus-ohio-healthcare/73804689007/

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Philippine Telco Globe Telecom Eyes Health Care, Other …

(3 days ago) WEBI think it’s no secret,” he added. Globe reported a 3% increase in first-quarter service revenue to 41.1 billion pesos ($708 million), the same growth it posted for all of 2023. But Globe’s

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-22/globe-telecom-eyeing-other-businesses-as-telco-matures-ceo-says-lwhbtdvg

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