Behind most lawsuits against doctors lies a desire to correct past harm and deter future negligence. But malpractice litigation causes harm itself. This harm often persists long after a lawsuit is ...

Lawyers are required to advocate for their clients with candor, proficiency, and diligence. Sometimes, a client may suffer ...

Claims data point to missed diagnoses, weak documentation and supervision gaps as core exposure themes amid a tougher US ...

All attorneys understand the ­possibility of a legal malpractice claim exists in the abstract. However, as a general rule, attorneys have little appreciation of the scale of the issue. In part, ...

"If a transaction goes awry or someone buys a business that doesn't turn out the way they want it to be," clients sometimes direct their litigation at the lawyers who represented them in the deal, ...

The Doctors Company, the nation's largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, today released "Neurology Claims: ...

The insurance industry has long argued that huge losses from malpractice suits -- now running more than $7 billion a year -- have forced it to hike malpractice premiums, which more than doubled last ...

June 25, 2012 — Adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs) by a group of Massachusetts physicians reduced their malpractice claims 6-fold over the period before they used EHRs, according to ...

Using insurance company annual statement data, the "Medical Malpractice Claims-Made Social Inflation and Loss Development Report" estimates that in the decade ending in 2021, between $2.4 and $3.5 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Patient Advocacy Reporting System reduced the cost of malpractice claims for high-risk clinicians in an ...

Electronic health records may help reduce hefty malpractice settlements for physicians and insurance companies. In a study done by Harvard researchers, 6.1% of physicians with electronic records had ...