HHS has ruled all payments made under state liability laws in response to medical malpractice claims — a written claim or demand for payment — are required to be reported to the National Practitioner ...

August 17, 2011 (UPDATED August 23, 2011) — The risk of facing a malpractice claim in any given year ranges from 2.6% for psychiatrists to 19.1% for neurosurgeons, but over a medical lifetime, most ...

This is the last article in series that focuses on your rights as a patient—both inside the hospital and out. Previously, I wrote about the Patient’s Bill of Rights, informed consent, medical sherpas, ...

Malpractice claims are down against internal medicine physicians, according to a new report. The report, which comes from The Doctor’s Company, the physician-owned insurance company, was based on an ...

Study finds most doctors will face at least one malpractice claim during career. Aug. 18, 2011— -- Almost every physician in the U.S. will face a malpractice claim during his or her career, ...

Freestanding ASC claims accounted for almost half of all anesthesia-related malpractice cases, according to a recent study published in the International Anesthesia Research Society journal that ...

Nonphysician operators (NPOs) using laser and energy-based devices are accounting for an increasing share of malpractice lawsuits in dermatology, and when they use these devices in a dermatologic ...

Legal malpractice claim verdicts and settlements are at an all-time high, according to a new survey from risk management advisers Ames & Gough. The survey, which examined trends at 13 of the world's ...