More than half of anesthesiologists report being named in a lawsuit at least once in their career and the specialty continues to have one of the highest malpractice premiums, according to the Medscape ...

A study published in the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management analyzed closed anesthesia medical malpractice claims reported to The Doctors Company, a medical malpractice insurance company which has ...

Freestanding ASC claims accounted for almost half of all anesthesia-related malpractice cases, according to a recent study published in the International Anesthesia Research Society journal that ...

"What I think the plaintiffs bar really needs to focus on is you can get more than the coverage, and for some reason, it's not been done very often," the plaintiff's attorney said. The family of a ...

Private equity firms swallowed nearly 1,100 medical practices from 2012 to 2022, in transactions so frequent and frenzied it appeared as though Wall Street had found some sort of “cheat code” that ...

A patient was recovering from general anesthesia for a cervical biopsy. In the recovery room, a nurse practitioner (NP) gave the patient cookies and tea. The patient spilled tea on her chest. The NP ...