Zurich North America Commercial Taps Marcia Munn to Lead Professional Liability Unit.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 July 2008-Zurich North America Commercial Taps Marcia Munn to Lead Professional Liability Unit(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Zurich, a property-casualty insurance company, announced Marcia Munn has joined the company as head of its Specialties Professional Liability unit, part of its North America Commercial...

CNA Provides Risk Management Guidance on Patient Privacy.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 July 2008-CNA Provides Risk Management Guidance on Patient Privacy(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Recently, the CNA insurance companies issued a client bulletin to provide healthcare managers with risk management guidance on the privacy risks associated with patient communication via telephone and e-mail. ...

Accountant accused of stealing $450,000; Shrewsbury Homes money embezzled.
Byline: Gary V. Murray WORCESTER - An East Brookfield accountant accused of stealing nearly half a million dollars from a Boylston home-building company pleaded not guilty yesterday in Worcester Superior Court. Brian D. Lamson, 39, of 121 Faith Drive, East Brookfield, allegedly embezzled about $450,000...

Surviving without liability insurance--1 year later.
For a little more than a year, Mark Macumher, M.D., has been conducting a health policy experiment--operating his medical practice without liability insurance. "The most surprising and rewarding thing is the response I get from the patients," said Dr. Macumber, a family physician practicing in Berwyn, Ill.,...

Not-so-obvious considerations for professional liability insurance.
September 1, 2005, was the 2-year anniversary of the effective date of the Texas medical malpractice tort reform laws. These provisions are primarily set forth in Section 74.001 et seq. of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. Available and affordable professional liability insurance for health care providers was...

Liability and health insurance woes.
I had a feeling of deja vu as I read about attempts to find a legislative solution to the liability insurance crisis in Connecticut ("Conn. Ob.Gyns. Seek Malpractice Solutions," April 1, 2005, p. 1). From 2001 to 2003--my last years in practice in Florida--physicians had optimism that...

Medical liability matters.
Medical liability insurance and litigation linger in the back of many young physicians' minds. Once they leave the relative legal security of a residency program, many physicians are unclear how to best protect themselves and their practices. Simple answers are hard to find--largely because they don't exist! ...

How low is too low? Astute buyers of E&O liability insurance limits for technology companies need to consider the size of the contract when shopping around. The more complex a product, the higher the needed limits.
A Web site/e-business platform developer was contracted to develop a company's Web site. Time passed, and the customer became frustrated with the vendor's failure to meet project milestones. In addition, the customer alleged that the vendor misrepresented its capabilities and supplied personnel not capable of completing the...

Protocol eases switch to office-based ablation: guidelines from the ACS, ASA, and liability insurance providers are included in the protocol.
CHICAGO -- Global endometrial ablation can be performed easily and safely in the office as long as physicians are adequately prepared and strictly adhere to protocols, Dr. Ted Anderson said at the annual meeting of the AAGL (formerly the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists). Dr. Anderson and...

Should antitrust principles be used to assess insurance residual market mechanisms, such as New York's medical malpractice insurance plan?
State-created insurance residual market mechanisms are typically designed to address flaws in markets in which a significant number of purchasers have difficulty obtaining affordable insurance; such programs, however, have often led to crises in such markets, and occasionally to economic catastrophe. (1) In this Paper, particular attention will be...