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13 May 2022 - by Stephen Koca, Leah A. Windt
The potential passage of California Assembly Bill 35, amending key provisions of the state’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act will have reverberations for years to come.
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27 April 2020 - by Stephen Koca, Anne C. Kallfisch, Patricia Kinghorn
The personal auto insurance market has taken a unique response to the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has chosen to reflect the impact of the short-term change in driver behavior.
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22 April 2020 - by Susan J. Forray, Stephen Koca
Modeling medical professional liability costs affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbated by tort law changes, variation in effect among specialties, and an apparent reduction in current claims that may prove to be only a delay contributing to an increase in future reported claim frequency.
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23 January 2018 - by Stephen Koca, Richard Lord
In 2016, the medical professional liability industry’s profitability was still strong, though income was derived from slightly improving investment income and still favorable prior year loss development.
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14 June 2017 - by Stephen Koca, Richard Lord
This study provides fundamental healthcare industry benchmarks from which informed decisions related to managing workers’ compensation in California can be made.
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27 September 2016 - by Stephen Koca, Richard Lord
How will medical professional liability insurers compete in a shrinking market and what will their role be?
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27 January 2016 - by Stephen Koca, Richard Lord
This report provides industry-wide benchmarks in terms of the fundamentals from which informed decisions related to workers’ compensation and maintaining appropriate risk can be made: claim frequency and severity, medical and indemnity costs, and allocated loss adjustment expense.
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01 September 2015 - by Stephen Koca, Richard Lord
The forces now sweeping through the healthcare market will call for agility and diversification from medical professional liability insurers.
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13 October 2014 - by Stephen Koca, Richard Lord
For continued success, MPL insurers must embrace dynamic business models.
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09 July 2014 - by Susan J. Forray, Stephen Koca
An initiative on the ballot this fall in California could have critical implications for tort reform, more than quadrupling the state's landmark cap on noneconomic damages in medical professional liability (MPL) awards.
