Professional liability and expert reports

Professional standards in failure analysis and expert reports.

Professional Liability in Dental Radiology

In radiology, as in every other medical speciality, the daily practice includes an intrinsic risk of human errors with potentially dangerous consequences to the patient. In particular, interpretation of medical imagines request skill and expertise obtained after a long training because of the difficulty to recognize the presence of pathological aspects, so the most common cause for a medical ma...

The Transitioning Medical Professional Liability Market—Challenges in Valuing a Medical Professional Liability Company

Likely driven by continuing health reform efforts and the flight of physicians from administrative detail and operating risk, statistics indicate that the number of physicians in private practice has declined notably over the past 10 years. By the time the Affordable Care Act was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2012, at least one industry source was estimating that the number of ph...

Liability for the psychiatrist expert witness.

OBJECTIVE An increasing number of general psychiatrists are acting as expert witnesses in the legal system. The purpose of this article is to help psychiatrists who are interested in doing forensic work by informing them of the risks entailed. METHOD The author reviews the medical and legal literature about expert witness immunity. RESULTS The author explains the traditional concept of expe...

Risk Control in Professional Liability Insurance

PROFESSIONAL liability insurance has become society's chief agency for the distribution of the cost of malpractice by the medical profession. It is quite natural that the medical practitioner, conscious of the possibility of a ruinous malpractice judgment, should seek the protection of insurance. Several factors indicate that this segment of the insurance industry will grow rapidly in the futur...