March 25, 2026, Healthcare Business Today
Evaluating Your Claims Defense Team: Does Your Carrier Have the Strength to Protect You Against Malpractice Allegations?
Facing a lawsuit is something clinicians need to be prepared for in the modern healthcare environment. In some high-risk specialties, more than two-thirds of clinicians will experience a claim during their career.
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February 14, 2024, The Doctors Company Foundation
Grant Case Study: Assessing Surgical Competency Through Automated AI-Powered Surgical Video Analysis
Traditional approaches to assessing surgical competency are fraught with limitations that include subjectivity and lack of multiple raters and longitudinal observation. Applying machine learning and AI to cataract surgical videos provides a unique opportunity to design new evaluation tools that not only measure a surgeon’s skill level, but can also inform future surgical instruction.
Video Jul 29, 2024
Reptile Theory and Malpractice Verdicts
Plaintiff’s lawyers are using “Reptile Theory”—leveraging the “fight or flight” instinct in jurors—to maximize malpractice verdicts higher than ever seen before.
Professional Education
Patient Termination
This brief audio presentation will give healthcare providers information on how to mitigate their risk when terminating a patient relationship. The key topics covered include establishing patient expectations, what to do when expectations aren’t being met, special circumstances to consider prior to termination, and finally, the elements of the termination notice.
May 30, 2025
A Doctor’s Guide to Selecting a Medical Malpractice Insurer
Whether you’re choosing medical malpractice insurance for the first time or seeking additional coverage for an established practice, selecting the right insurer is one of the most important decisions you’ll make.
July 08, 2025, How I Invest
T.C. Wilson Shares Insurance Investment Insights on ‘How I Invest’ Podcast
T.C. Wilson, Chief Investment Officer of The Doctors Company and TDC Group, joined the "How I Invest" podcast to share how he built a $7 billion insurance investment portfolio by prioritizing portfolio construction over manager selection.
April 17, 2025, NEJM Career Center
Preparing to Make a Physician Practice Move: Prudent Planning Is Key
Physicians change jobs often. In this article, Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP, Chairman and CEO of The Doctors Company, shares insight into how doctors should handle changing malpractice insurance when transitioning employment, and particularly how to maintain or obtain adequate tail coverage in the new policy.
January 27, 2025, Chicago Magazine
Incidental Findings Can Lead to Malpractice Claims
If the ordering practitioner does not follow up, an incidental finding may lead to patient harm and result in a malpractice claim. The Doctors Company has completed an analysis of medical malpractice claims against our members in which an incidental finding was identified as a contributing factor.
October 28, 2025, Business Insurance
Patient Care Recordkeeping Key to Cutting Nurse Med Mal Claims
Nursing professionals should carefully document patient care to avoid malpractice claims, which experts say are increasing in severity. Julie Ritzman, Senior Vice President of Patient Safety and Risk Management, provides recommendations on how nurses can manage risk.
January 08, 2026, Inside Medical Liability
Build the Foundation First: Data Platforms and Governance for Medical Liability Carriers
Nageswaran (Nag) Vaidyanathan, Vice President of Application Engineering, Information Technology, The Doctors Company, discusses how digital transformation begins with building a unified data platform to inform decisions across business operations, marketing, sales, and interdepartmental processes.
