You've been sued for medical malpractice. If you are a physician in the United States, that is not an unlikely scenario. An analysis by the American Medical Association shows that almost half of all ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Bobby L. Hickman is a longtime business and financial journalist who brings decades of ...

Is malpractice insurance the same as professional liability insurance? Malpractice insurance, professional liability insurance (also called professional indemnity insurance), and errors and omissions ...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has declared the high price and limited availability of medical malpractice insurance to be an emergency. He wants the Legislature, which convenes this week, to limit punitive ...

Georgia physicians are suffering from two ailments at the same time. On the one hand, they face the threat of frivolous malpractice lawsuits requiring them to practice defensive medicine. To protect ...