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Communication Failures Involved In 49% Of Medical Malpractice Claims

October 5, 2022

Communication Failures Involved In 49% Of Medical Malpractice Claims: A study published earlier this year in the Journal of Patient Safety reported: “Communication failures were identified in 49% of claims. Claims with communication failures were significantly less likely to be dropped, denied[...]

Nursing Malpractice Statistics

September 16, 2022

Nursing Malpractice Statistics: In its report entitled “A Dose Of Insight: A Nurse’s Crucial Role In Patient Safety: Through The Lens Of Malpractice Claims” dated September 9, 2022, Coverys evaluated 4,634 events that closed between 2018 and 2021 and identified 850 specific events [...]

CFPB Report Highlights Nursing Homes’ Illegal Collections Practices

September 15, 2022

CFPB Report Highlights Nursing Homes’ Illegal Collections Practices: Although the Nursing Home Reform Act (NHRA) prevents a nursing home “from requiring a person other than the resident to assume personal responsibility for any cost of the resident’s care,” some nursing homes and debt co[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

The Doctors Company Has Paid Over $140M To Insureds Who Have Retired

September 7, 2022

The Doctors Company is the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, insuring 84,000 doctors nationwide. The Doctors Company offers comprehensive risk solutions for practices of all sizes—from medical and dental solo practitioners to the largest multispecialty, multistate gro[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Rejects Challenge To Right To Die Law

September 4, 2022

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) stated in its published opinion dated June 10, 2022: “After nearly a decade of deliberations among “policy makers, religious organizations, experts in the medical community, advocates for perso[...]

Iowa Medical Malpractice Statistics

August 30, 2022

The Iowa Insurance Division requested open and closed claim data for calendar year 2020 from licensed insurance companies pursuant to Iowa Code Section 505.27. Licensed companies who wrote medical malpractice insurance in Iowa during the period from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020 were ask[...]

Maryland Is First State To Accept Electronic Clinical Quality Measure Data From Hospitals

August 28, 2022

Maryland has partnered with CRISP, Maryland’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), and Medisolv, a leader in quality management software, to become the first state in the country to successfully receive Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) data from Maryland hospitals under a [...]

The Peer Review Privilege Is Supposed To Promote Patient Safety But Instead Harms Patients Injured By Medical Malpractice

August 24, 2022

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-41) (“Act”), signed into law on July 29, 2005, was enacted in response to growing concern about patient safety in the United States and the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer [...]

Colorado Supreme Court Sides With Patient In Hospital Billing Dispute

August 22, 2022

Lisa Melody French (“French”) went to Centura Health Corporation and Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado d/b/a St. Anthony North Health Campus (collectively, “Centura”) for spinal fusion surgery. Upon reviewing French’s insurance information prior to her surgery, Centura advised h[...]

Teva And Allergan To Pay $161.5M To Settle West Virginia Opioid Claims

August 16, 2022

Teva Pharmaceuticals, a U.S. affiliate of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and its affiliates, (“Teva”) announced on May 25, 2022 that it has reached an agreement with the Attorney General of West Virginia that settles the state’s and its subdivisions opioid-related claims. The sett[...]

False Claims Act Settlements And Judgments Exceeded $5.6 Billion In Fiscal Year 2021

August 10, 2022

The United States Department of Justice announced on February 1, 2022 that it obtained more than $5.6 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, which is the second largest annual total i[...]

PCP Turnover Contributes $979 Million In Excess Health Care Costs In The United States

July 12, 2022

PCP Turnover Contributes $979 Million In Costs: A study published on February 26, 2022 entitled “Health Care Expenditures Attributable to Primary Care Physician Overall and Burnout-Related Turnover: A Cross-sectional Analysis” reported: “Turnover of PCPs results in approximately $9[...]

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