March 7, 2025 by matray

Below are some headlines and article synopses from the March 2025 issue of Medical Liability Monitor. To read the articles in their entirety, please subscribe today.

Primary Care Physicians Concerned About GLP-1 Telehealth Prescriptions
Amid soaring patient demand for GLP-1 weight loss medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy, primary care physicians (PCPs) are raising concerns about patient safety risks associated with third-party telehealth prescriptions of the new drugs. According to a recent survey conducted by the San Francisco-based healthcare consultancy Omada Health, those concerns are growing as telehealth services play an increasing role in prescribing these medications, often without the involvement of the patient’s primary care physician …

Utah Law Letting Minors Revoke Consent Raises Healthcare Chaos Fears
Under a 2023 update to Utah’s Health Care Malpractice Act, minors who consent to “hormonal transgender treatment” or surgery on “sex characteristics” can later withdraw that consent before reaching the age of 25 if they experience a “permanent injury” from the treatment. This provision allows patients to argue that their doctors should have anticipated the patient’s health outcome and subsequent regret, opening the door to new medical liability claims against clinicians …

Candello Report Highlights Magnitude, Costs of Documentation Errors
A recent benchmarking report from Candello — a division of CRICO, the provider of primary and excess medical liability insurance coverage to Harvard-affiliated healthcare institutions — reveals an alarming frequency of documentation errors and how those errors affect the defensibility of negligence claims …

Indigo Update: The AI-Driven MPL Insurer Reports Strong Growth During Inaugural Year
Indigo, the emerging medical professional liability (MPL) insurance platform founded on leveraging artificial intelligence, expanded data and advanced technology to deliver customized coverage pricing for physicians, reports making significant strides since its launch in October 2023 …

Arkansas Bans Phantom Damages, Halves Birth Injury Filing Deadline
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed two bills affecting the medical liability industry into law last month. Act 28 prohibits phantom damages in lawsuits by limiting recoverable medical expenses to actual costs paid or owed. Act 124 shortens the statute of limitations for birth-injury medical malpractice claims, reducing the deadline for lawsuits from a child’s 11th birthday to their fifth …

N.Y. Gov. Hochul Proposes Physicians Pay Half of Excess Coverage Costs
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled her Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Budget on Jan. 21. The proposed budget includes a provision reducing state funding for New York’s Excess Medical Malpractice Insurance Program by requiring a 50% copay from covered physicians. This policy change would impose an estimated $40 million cost on approximately 16,000 physicians who currently benefit from this coverage …

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