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Yes, in some cases. But experts stress that parameters don't confer immunity. It's one of your worst nightmares: Pressured by health plans into complying with their treatment guidelines, you're sued [...]

What the strangest malpractice case you've ever heard of? Here are some of our all-time favorites. 'Sometimes, doctors are right to be paranoid,' says attorney John R. Fitzpatrick of Richmond, [...]

An HMO medical director, he's board-certified, licensed in two states, and has decades of experience. But Florida officials had him arrested anyway. FP Roger H. Strube sat at his computer [...]

Physicians face the risk of being accused of malpractice if they are not cautious in making referrals even if no patient-physician relations exist. This was proven in a maplractice case filed against orthopedist David Greenberg. Although Greenberg won the case, his failure to contact his patient's attorney and treating physician before making a referral has tainted his reputation., This case is a prime example. A "routine" evaluation that spawned a high-stakes malpractice suit, it became a nightmare that took five years - and four trips to court - [...]

Was the plaintiff a victim of negligence or a con artist? The camera revealed the truth. A plaintiff in a malpractice suit inadvertently became the 'star' in a dramatic videotape [...]

A physician was denied coverage for a malpractice judgment against him because of insurance policy rules. The physician changed insurance carriers during the course of the malpractice suit and neither company wanted to cover his case. American Physicians Insurance Exchange denied coverage for several reasons, including the fact that Physicians National Risk Retention Group, the second carrier, provided coverage for prior occurrences. Physicians National has been in liquidation. Physicians can avoid insurance problems by fully understanding policy terms before paying premiums., He had two of them, but both found excuses to deny coverage for a $1 million malpractice judgment. Facing ruin, he was forced to take both carriers to court. To [...]

With one wrong word, an OBG specialist compromised his defense in a malpractice suit that should never have gone to trial. The patient alleged that the doctor's negligence in performing [...]

Medical leaders and insurers throughout the country blanched when a Phoenix jury awarded $28.7 million recently to the parents of ayoung child who contracted AIDS from a contaminated blood transfusion. [...]

THIS TRIAL COULD CHANGE THE WAY YOU HANDLE AIDS PATIENTS Although he'd handled few medical-malpractice cases, plaintiff's attorney Stephen Merrill felt his client deserved a quick settlement. The negligence of [...]

Did veteran internist Wing Chin recklessly permit a terminally ill patient to suffer intolerable pain in violation of California's elder-abuse law? Or did he become a scapegoat when a jury, [...]

Practice good medicine, and get sued anyway. Most physicians expect they'll be defendants eventually, according to our new survey. Getting sued for malpractice is no longer a stain on a [...]

WHEN DEFEATING A MALPRACTICE PLAINTIFF ISN'T ENOUGH Alfred J. Tria Jr., an orthopedist in New Brunswick, N.J., anguished through years of depositions, hearings, and postponements before a jury finally heard [...]

A doctor who says she was wrongly blamed for a fatal overdose at a renowned hospital seeks her day in court. It was perhaps the most publicized drug overdose in [...]

If you're ever sued for malpractice, there's a good chance you'll be sharing the defense table with a codefendant or two, usually another physician, a hospital, or a group practice. [...]

One of the nation's largest medical malpractice carriers has been indicted for perjury. Criminal charges were fried in Alabama last month against St. Patti Fire and Marine Insurance Co., a [...]

Skeptical of the court system's ability to deliver justice, the Medical Society of the State of New York has asked Gov. George E. Pataki to pardon internist Gerald Einaugler, whose [...]