Professional Liability


February 08, 2022

A court has ruled on the Oxford comma, finding that a policy's punctuation was not unclear and that a professional liability policy did not cover a multimillion-dollar judgment resulting from a lawsuit.

January 03, 2022

When a patient falls in the medical exam room due to sonogram gel spill is this a professional liability or general liability claim?

September 30, 2021

The Pennsylvania Superior Court remanded and instructed a lower court to dismiss a nursing manager's medical malpractice complaint after she sought damages for vaccine-related injuries without first exhausting available remedies under a national program.

June 17, 2021

Whose responsibility is it to comply with professional liability statutory requirements, the attorney or the insurer providing the professional liability policy?

November 16, 2020

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has decided that an insurer is not obligated to defend or indemnity a Nevada doctor under his professional…

October 19, 2020

After an insurance carrier denied a lawyer and her firm's claim for lost business income due to the COVID-19-related shutdown, she sued both her carrier and the producer that procured the policy.

August 05, 2020

The dissenting opinion found that the other two judges misinterpreted Georgia law.

July 01, 2019

The Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a bad faith action against the insurer after an unexpected excess judgment.

June 24, 2019

An unlicensed therapist provided services to a young boy who later killed himself.

June 17, 2019

Insurers have a duty to defend the county against the estates of three men who were falsely imprisoned, and during their imprisonment suffered life-threatening and eventually deadly illnesses and injuries.