Resource Library
The Resource Library is a compendium of consent forms, risk management recommendations, sample documents, articles, and other risk management materials to promote ophthalmic patient safety and reduce liability. Contact riskmanagement@omic.com with questions.
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Oct 8, 2024
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OMIC's claims management process typically cuts through the red tape and streamlines what could otherwise be a frustrating and stressful adversarial process. The result is a more responsive, personalized experience designed not just to provide competent legal defense, but to reduce the anxiety and alienation that accompany a malpractice action.
Mar 25, 2015
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Over the past five years, OMIC has spent more than $1.8 million to help insureds proactively manage a myriad of sensitive, complex liability issues that were not malpractice claims. This Digest reviews some of these events and the value of calling OMIC early and often when they occur.
Oct 8, 2024
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You have just been sued for malpractice. Who would you want as your defense attorney through the legal quagmire that is sure to follow?
Oct 8, 2024
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Ophthalmologists inquiring about professional liability insurance often ask how OMIC selects defense counsel when a claim or lawsuit arises. They want to know which attorneys OMIC uses in their city, how OMIC chooses the attorneys it appoints, and if insureds can select their own counsel.
Aug 15, 2018
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Infection is a risk of all surgeries. Endophthalmitis is a particularly worrisome type of infection because it can lead to severe vision loss, blindness, and loss of the eye.
Aug 12, 2023
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OMIC has published two reports of endophthalmitis claims studies, one in 2006 and another in 2017. This issue of the Digest updates those studies with data from OMIC’s endophthalmitis claims closed between January 2018 and December 2022, thereby creating a complete analysis of endophthalmitis claims experience from the time of OMIC’s founding in 1987 through 2022.
Oct 12, 2024
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Many ophthalmologists are so outraged and hurt when they are served with a malpractice suit that they understandably do not want to get involved.
Oct 12, 2024
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Lawsuits happen to all types of ophthalmologists. Be prepared when and if it happens to you.
Oct 3, 2023
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You would never attempt to represent yourself in a medical malpractice lawsuit. You know that if you are faced with a malpractice complaint, your first course of action should be to call OMIC’s claims department. What you may not know is that OMIC is also here to defend you if you receive a letter of investigation from your state medical board regarding patient care you have rendered.
Sep 22, 2015
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When OMIC settles a claim or pays a judgment against an insured, policyholders often wonder if the payment will be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). This article will describe under what circumstances federal law requires such reporting.
Oct 12, 2024
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The aftershocks associated with adverse medical events, such as a bad outcome, or with a subsequent lawsuit may vary in severity.
Oct 12, 2024
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It is not uncommon that the first notice of a claim against a physician is an intimidating letter from the patient’s attorney threatening a lawsuit while at the same time offering a settlement. Much of what takes place during the course of litigation causes alarm, anger and anxiety, leading to what is commonly referred to as “the malpractice stress syndrome.”