Medical Liability

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Residency Feb 20, 2020

AMA-brokered deal poised to cover residents affected by Hahnemann closure

1,500-plus displaced Hahnemann doctors could get long-tail liability coverage if judge OKs AMA’s underwriting legal representation of orphaned residents, fellows in the case.

Digital Feb 17, 2020

Why health care AI can’t replace medicine’s human component

The AMA deliberately uses the term “augmented intelligence” rather than the more common “artificial intelligence”—and there’s a good reason for that.

Judicial Advocacy Feb 5, 2020

Court should overturn ruling that burdens physicians’ defense

If a Maryland ruling stands, doctors who want to offer alternative causes for patient harm would need to undergo a “mini-trial” on each of them.

Judicial Advocacy Jan 29, 2020

What legal challenges will affect patients and physicians in 2020?

From keeping the government out of exam rooms to keeping patients insured, see the legal trends the AMA and the AMA Litigation Center have identified.

Sustainability

State medical liability reform

Read how the AMA pursues medical liability laws on the state level to reshape the current medical liability system to better serve both physicians and patients.

Sustainability

Federal medical liability legislative activities

Learn about the AMA’s efforts to enact medical liability reform through legislative actions and initiatives at the federal level.

Patient Support & Advocacy Jan 22, 2020

High court ruling must avoid encouraging involuntary commitment

Physicians strike a delicate balance in deciding whether patients with serious mental illnesses require involuntary commitment. A new case could create more legal exposure for doctors making such hard calls.

Sustainability Jan 2, 2020

Top court turns down bid for damages-only medical liability retrial

Had Georgia’s highest court granted the request, physicians and hospitals would be opened up to “much greater liability than jury thought was just.”

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