LegalView.info recently updated its traumatic brain injury information blog readers with news of the development of a long-term study that will likely increase treatments of TBI patients as well as improve upon rehabilitation therapies, according to a January article from the Chicago Tribune. The study is being lead by several health care research facilities from both the United States and Canada, and it is being funded with a $4.3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A new program from Medical Professional Mutual Insurance Company and its subsidiaries ("ProMutual Group"), a leading provider of medical liability insurance in the Northeast, was recently instituted in a pilot phase to address the needs of physicians, hospitals and their patients following certain adverse medical outcomes.

Casa Bonita Convalescent Hospital in Los Angeles County has received three citations and fines totaling $121,000 from the State of California after an investigation by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) concluded that poor care of a resident led to the resident's death, CDPH Director Dr. Mark Horton announced today. The resident, who was ventilator dependent, died after becoming disconnected from the ventilator.

The Doctors Company, the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability, has received the exclusive endorsement of the Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) as the preferred carrier for its members. LACMA represents physicians from every medical specialty and practice setting across Los Angeles County.

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) today announced that the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division has granted summary judgment in favor of UnitedHealth Group on all claims in the antitrust litigation with institutional pharmacy Omnicare, Inc.

GPs can be "too helpful" to patients and blind to the risks of getting too closely involved in matters that are not strictly clinical, according to an article in the latest (Winter 2009) edition of Summons, the magazine of MDDUS, The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland.