The Doctors Company, a leading medical malpractice insurance company, known for its low prices and creative coverage solutions, has announced a new coverage enhancement named CYBERGUARD. Cyberguard will be added to all existing medical malpractice insurance policies issued by The Doctors Company. The new enhancement protects doctors from claims arising from the theft, loss, or [...]

An online publication recently begged the question, “How Competent Is Your Surgeon?” In the piece, the writer claims that a friend was in a Florida hospital for an appendectomy, but a records check showed that the staff surgeon had been sued five times… and that all five times the case was settled out of court. [...]

Ambest, the 109 year old credit rating agency for this industry, has pronounced and affirmed the financial strength of The Medical Protective Company, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, granting them an AA+ rating as an insurance provider. They further state that the company’s financial strength and credit rating are both stable. Such a rating is [...]

This is the time of year when all physicians, managers, and administrators should be sitting down to plan for 2009 expenses. The second or third line item of most healthcare practice balance sheets is INSURANCE. This is one area that should be carefully and personally reviewed with your insurance broker each year. Those practices with [...]

Although the question asked was specific to malpractice insurance for dermatology nurses, the advice of health care attorney Carolyn Buppert is sound for most any specialty.  When considering how much malpractice coverage to obtain, you want “as much as you can get and afford.” This legal expert points out that that there are too few [...]