Medicolegal Issues
Law & Medicine
Legal duty to nonpatients: Driving accidents
A doctor’s legal duty may be extended to individuals other than patients in limited circumstances.
Law & Medicine
Law & Medicine: Which doctors get sued?
News
Malpractice premiums flat in 2015, but changes could be ahead
Physicians paid about the same in medical liability insurance premiums in 2015 as they did in 2014. A nationwide survey of insurers by the Medical...
News
HHS: Expand antidiscrimination protections to transgender patients
Transgender patients who receive health care via government programs or funding must receive equal access to treatments and insurance coverage,...
Article
Value-based care poses new legal risks for doctors
The government’s push toward value-based care aims to fix a broken reimbursement system and improve quality of care for patients. But the new...