Medical Malpractice
Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Health Care Malpractice Claims - Expert Witnesses - Admissibility of Insurance [SB-857]
Providing that the existence of professional liability insurance coverage is admissible at the hearing of a claim or the trial of an action against a health care provider for alleged medical injury solely for the purpose of assessing the bias, if any, of an expert witness, if the expert's professional liability insurance carrier is a mutual or self-insured entity and a judgment against a defendant in the action would be paid by the expert's carrier.
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State Board of Physicians - Appointment and Term of Chair [SB-629]
Requiring the Governor to appoint the chair of the State Board of Physicians; and establishing the term of office of the chair.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Insurance - Maryland Health Care Provider Rate Stabilization Fund [SB-230]
Altering the time at which specified professional liability insurers seeking reimbursement from the Rate Stabilization Account of the Maryland Health Care Provider Rate Stabilization Fund on behalf of specified health care providers are required to make a specified determination, send a specified notice, and apply to the Account for reimbursement; repealing specified audit requirements; altering reporting requirements; etc.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Maryland Health Security Act of 2012 [SB-206]
Establishing the Maryland Health System; requiring the Health System to provide health care services to all residents of the State under a single system that is not dependent on employment; authorizing a member of the Health System to choose any participating health care provider; requiring the Health System to reimburse a member who receives health care services from an out-of-state health care provider under specified circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Health Occupations - State Board of Naturopathic Medicine [SB-180]
Establishing the State Board of Naturopathic Medicine; specifying the duties of the Board; establishing the State Board of Naturopathic Medicine Fund; requiring, beginning January 1, 2014, an individual to have a license before practicing naturopathic medicine in the State; establishing the Naturopathic Formulary Council; requiring the Council to establish a naturopathic formulary, transmit the formulary to the Board, and review the formulary under specified circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
State Board of Physicians - Appointment and Term of Chair [HB-824]
Requiring the Governor to appoint the chair of the State Board of Physicians; and establishing the term of office of the chair.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Health Occupations - State Board of Naturopathic Medicine [HB-620]
Establishing the State Board of Naturopathic Medicine; specifying the duties of the Board; establishing the State Board of Naturopathic Medicine Fund; requiring, beginning January 1, 2014, an individual to have a license before practicing naturopathic medicine in the State; establishing the Naturopathic Formulary Council; requiring the Council to establish a naturopathic formulary, transmit the formulary to the Board, and review the formulary under specified circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Health Care Malpractice Claims - Expert Witnesses - Limitations [HB-507]
Prohibiting a party, in the trial of specified actions against a health care provider for an alleged medical injury, from presenting testimony from more than two experts, unless the court, for good cause shown, permits additional experts; and applying the Act to actions filed on or after the effective date.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Health Care Malpractice Claims - Expert Witnesses - Admissibility of Insurance [HB-506]
Providing that the existence of professional liability insurance coverage is admissible at the hearing of a claim or the trial of an action against a health care provider for alleged medical injury solely for the purpose of assessing the bias, if any, of an expert witness, if the expert's professional liability insurance carrier is a mutual or self-insured entity and a judgment against a defendant in the action would be paid by the expert's carrier.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Health Occupations - Licensed Midwives [HB-1056]
Establishing the State Board of Midwives; requiring the Board to adopt specified regulations consistent with specified standards; specifying that the Act does not limit the right of specified individuals to practice specified occupations; requiring the Board to set specified fees and to pay specified fees collected to the Comptroller; authorizing the Board to take specified disciplinary action against an applicant or a licensee for specified reasons; subjecting the Act to the Program Evaluation Act; etc.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Maryland Health Security Act of 2012 [HB-1015]
Establishing the Maryland Health System; requiring the Health System to provide health care services to all residents of the State under a single system that is not dependent on employment; authorizing a member of the Health System to choose any participating health care provider; requiring the Health System to reimburse a member who receives health care services from an out-of-state health care provider under specified circumstances; etc.
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Utah 2012 General Session
Joint Resolution Amending Rules of Civil Procedure on Peer Review [SJR-15]
Joint Resolution Amending Rules of Civil Procedure on Peer Review
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Utah 2011 General Session
Negligent Credentialing [SB-150]
Negligent Credentialing
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Utah 2011 General Session
Collateral Source Rule Amendments [HB-356]
Collateral Source Rule Amendments
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregory Hughes Bill Numbered By Title Without Any Substance In Lrgc on 02/05/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Medical Professional Liability Insurance for Nonprofit Health Care Providers [SB-895]
Requiring counties to provide specified minimum amounts of medical professional liability insurance for specified nonprofit health care providers; etc.
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Health Care Malpractice - Certificate and Report of Qualified Expert - [SB-887]
Establishing when objections to a certificate of a qualified expert or expert report must be filed in health care malpractice cases; and requiring a party to file a legally sufficient certificate of a qualified expert and report within 30 days after an arbitration panel chairman or the court rules a certificate or report legally insufficient.
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
State Board of Dental Examiners - Dentists and Dental Hygienists - Licenses, [SB-578]
Establishing a temporary volunteer dentist's license, a temporary volunteer dental hygienist's license, and a temporary dental clinic permit under the State Board of Dental Examiners; altering specified qualifications; establishing procedures for dentists, dental hygienists, and bona fide charitable organizations to apply for specified licenses and permits; establishing the scope of practice of specified licenses; requiring temporary dental clinics to have a medical emergency plan and specified equipment and safeguards; etc.
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Health Occupations - State Board of Naturopathic Medicine [SB-560]
Establishing the State Board of Naturopathic Medicine; specifying the duties of the Board; establishing the State Board of Naturopathic Medicine Fund; requiring, beginning January 1, 2013, an individual to have a license before practicing naturopathic medicine in the State; establishing the Naturopathic Formulary Council; requiring the Council to establish a naturopathic formulary, transmit the formulary to the Board, and review the formulary under specified circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Health Occupations - Temporary Volunteer Dentist's License, Temporary Volunteer [SB-502]
Establishing a temporary volunteer dentist's license, a temporary volunteer dental hygienist's license, and a temporary dental clinic permit under the State Board of Dental Examiners; altering a specified qualification for dentists and dental hygienists licensed in another state to be granted a license in this State; establishing specified procedures for dentists, dental hygienists, and bona fide charitable organizations to apply for specified licenses and permits; specifying powers of the Board; etc.
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Physicians - Medical Professional Liability Insurance Coverage - Notification [SB-5]
Requiring physicians licensed to practice medicine in the State to notify specified patients in writing and on specified visits of information about medical professional liability insurance coverage; requiring that the notification be provided to and signed by a patient at the time of the patient's first visit or at the first visit after the physician's receipt of information and be retained as part of the patient's medical records; requiring specified physicians to post information in their place of business; etc.