NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company announced last week they will declare a dividend for 2010. The dividend equals about 10 percent of the prior policy-year premium for all California medical malpractice insureds. The dividend is applied just like a discount to the insurance billing statement. The only catch, of course, is you have to maintain your [...]

Medical Protective (part of the Berkshire Hathaway group of companies) is reintroducing the Occurrence coverage form in many states, including those in the west. Occurrence form used to be the only coverage form prior to the crisis in the medical malpractice insurance industry in the 1980′s. Essentially tail coverage or extended reporting coverage is built [...]