An Act To Update Professional Liability Insurance Reporting to the Bureau of Insurance
Sec. 1. 24 MRSA §2601, first ¶, as amended by PL 1997, c. 126, §1, is further amended to read:
Every insurer providing professional liability insurance in this State to a person licensed by the Board of Licensure in Medicine or the Board of Osteopathic Licensure or to any health care provider shall make a periodic report of claims made under the insurance to the department or board that regulates the insured. For purposes of this section, a claim is made whenever the insurer receives information from an insured, a patient of an insured or an attorney that an insured's liability for malpractice is asserted. The report must include:
Sec. 2. 24 MRSA §2602, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1997, c. 126, §2, is further amended to read:
For purposes of this subsection, a judgment or award is final when it can not be appealed, and a disposition is final when it results from judgment, dismissal, withdrawal or abandonment and a claim is made whenever the insurer receives information from an insured, a patient of an insured or an attorney that an insured's liability for malpractice is asserted.
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This bill makes the following changes to the laws governing liability claims reports under the Maine Health Security Act:
1. It amends the law to provide that reports of claims against a health care provider need not be forwarded to the department or board that regulates the health care provider; and
2. It amends the law to provide that reports of disposition of claims against a health care provider must be forwarded to the department or board that regulates the health care provider.