ExecuSummit - Featured Event - 04

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The State of the Medical Malpractice Industry.

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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:

Physician Risk in 2009...New Risks So New Strategies!

James W. Saxton, Esq.
Co-Chair of the Health Care Department
Chair of the Health Care Litigation Group
Stevens & Lee

Keeping patients from lawyers - perhaps we need a grass roots effort!
The second generation informed consent becomes a part of disclosure.
Liability risks associated with EMR - a promising product with inadvertent risk.

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Bad Faith Exposure in MPLI Claims Handling

Robert E. White, Jr.
President
FPIC

Understanding the significant exposure these claims represent.
The importance the American Association for Justice places on their initiative to expand the law in this area.
The activities that constitute good faith claims handling.
Strategies and tactics for defending these claims.

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Inside View: Apology & Disclosure Policies
Apologizing to Patients & Families
After an Adverse Medical Event

Jo Shapiro, MD
Senior Associate Director,
Partners Office of Graduate Medical Education
Chief, Division of Otolaryngology
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Successfully implementing a disclosure/apology system.
Why creating a supportive environment based upon open communication and patient-centered care is central to recognizing and acknowledging the emotional impact of a medical error.

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Medical Malpractice Issues,Challenges and Opportunities

Kevin M. Bingham, ACAS, MAAA
Principal & Summit Chairman
Deloitte Consulting, LLP

Enterprise risk management... rating agency messaging and balancing your investment in ERM.
CMS, never events, and the potential impacts on medical malpractice carriers.
Industry challenges and opportunities.

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Reinsurance and the Softening Market

Brian Alvers, FCAS, MAAA
Senior Vice President
Aon Re Global

Latest trends in reinsurance.
Decision-making in reinsurance.
Reinsurance as part of overall capital management framework.

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Emerging Theories of Liability in HPL and Managed Care

Josh Stein
Chief Underwriting Officer
IronHealth

Taking Zagat’s To a New Level: Physician Ranking and Pay For Performance and the Attendant Liability Exposures.
Where Have All The Shock Verdicts Against the Managed Care Companies Gone and Will they Return Given Efforts by some 2008 Presidential Candidates to Politicize the issue of Health Insurance and Fuel the Fire Against the Managed Care Industry?
The Sequel to Provider Litigation Against the Managed Care Industry: Might Hospitals or other Healthcare Institutions Jump on the Individual Providers’ RICO litigation Bandwagon?
Future Managed Care Litigation Trends: Will the Plaintiffs’ Managed Care Bar Fruitful Litigation Fodder Include Disease Management, Pharmacy Management and Wellness Services?
Credentialing: Are Hospitals and Healthcare facilities Doing Enough to Make Sure Their Physicians Are Qualified?
Health Care Privacy Rights: What exposures have materialized and what insurance products or coverages are responding to these exposures?

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Changes in the Delivery of Medicine
and the Impact on Claim Frequency

William E. Burns
Unique Risk Solutions LLC

Healthcare providers – yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Who is doing what and where are they doing it?
How do these changes impact claim frequency?

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Avoiding Medical Malpractice: A View from the Courtroom

Andrew S. Garson
Partner
Garson DeCorato & Cohen

Effective Charting.
Practices and Procedures to Avoid Malpractice.
Effective Communication with Patients and family Members.
Create a Winning Impression at Deposition and Trial.

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How Explosive Health Care Demand Will Change Risks

Sanford Elsass
President and CEO
Uni-Ter Group
Lewis & Clark LTC Risk Retention Group, Inc.

Nancy E. Rehkamp
Principal
LarsonAllen

Estimates of how aging services will be reconfigured 2010 to 2030.
A review of data about how workforce and caregiver availability will impact demand for aging services and the risks resulting from shortages.
How will dramatic changes in elder care affect medical malpractice costs.
The impact of the aging population on medical malpractice claims and costs.

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Medical Malpractice Results and Loss Trends

Kimber J. Lantry, JD, CPCU, ARM
Executive Vice President
Hudson Healthcare
Hudson Insurance Group

Sources of medical malpractice loss data
Frequency - okay, it down, but why?
Severity - it just keeps going up!
So where does the money go?
Tort reform - what's it worth?
Conclusion: a fearless prediction of the precise end of the soft market!

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