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Medical professionals required to report suspected elder abuse, neglect or exploitation

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Effective September 29, 2018, medical professionals in Ohio, including physicians and nurses, are required to report suspected elder abuse, neglect or exploitation. Ohio Revised Code 5101.63, which creates a duty to report...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Does Doctor Negligence Often Go Unreported? - National Practitioners Data Bank

Are doctors relocating all over the United States? Congress created the National Practitioners Data Bank in 1986, passing a piece of legislation whose mission entailed improving the quality of healthcare, reducing abuse...more

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Required Reporting of Privileged Information

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Arizona physicians must report to the Medical Board “any information that appears to show that a doctor of medicine is or may be medically incompetent, is or may be guilty of unprofessional conduct or is or may be mentally or...more

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Peer Review Not Protected: U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Disturb Florida Decision Limiting the Patient Safety and Quality...

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A multi-year discovery dispute regarding the adverse medical incident reports of a Jacksonville, Florida hospital concluded on October 2, 2017 when the United States Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in...more

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Florida Supreme Court Rejects PSQIA Preemption of Florida Constitution

On January 31, 2017, the Florida Supreme Court held that adverse medical incident reports produced in accordance with Florida law cannot constitute confidential and privileged patient safety work product (PSWP) under the...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Florida Supreme Court Rules That Hospital "Adverse Medical Incidents" Reported to a PSO Are Not Privileged From Discovery: Impact...

Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida (Hospital) was sued in a medical malpractice action in which the plaintiff sought to discover records relating to "adverse medical incidents" that occurred at the Hospital and involved any...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Disruptive, Aged & Impaired Physicians Legal Updates

In This Presentation: - What is Disruptive/Impaired Behavior? - Main Impediments to Addressing Unprofessional Behavior - Components of Successful Policies - A Legal Perspective - Joint Commission and...more

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Doctors, Lawyers and the Controversial Prop 46

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What's the most controversial measure on California's November ballot? The insurance regulation bill, Prop 45, may be a good contender – but more than likely the controversy over Proposition 46 will win the contest hands...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

NPDB Guidebook revision would clarify investigation reporting issues

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Physicians always have been justifiably concerned about reports to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) regarding malpractice payments and adverse peer review actions. Two areas of frequent uncertainty have been: ...more

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Reinsurance Redux - May 2013

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In This Issue: - District of New Jersey Stays Medical Malpractice Suit Pending Arbitration: Finding that a dispute between a medical malpractice insurer and a reinsurance underwriter fell squarely within the...more

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