{"id":4913,"date":"2026-06-29T06:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/the-doctors-company-closes-1-3-billion-proassurance-acquisition\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:19:13","slug":"the-doctors-company-closes-1-3-billion-proassurance-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/the-doctors-company-closes-1-3-billion-proassurance-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctors Company closes $1.3 billion ProAssurance acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The AMA&#8217;s April 2026 Policy Research Perspective report confirmed that medical liability premiums rose for the seventh consecutive year in 2025, with 39.9% of premiums increasing &#8211; the highest rate since 2005 outside the 2024 peak of 49.8%. Increases were concentrated in Pennsylvania, where 92.2% of reported premiums rose, and New York, where 95.7% increased. Underlying the premium trajectory is a severity crisis: median awards for major malpractice cases more than doubled in 2025, verdicts above $10 million have more than doubled since 2015, and S&amp;P Global found that physician-related payments of $500,000 or more accounted for 36.5% of all payments in 2024 &#8211; a new high. The Doctors Company itself has described the current environment as &#8220;an era marked by nuclear malpractice verdicts.&#8221; Its own commissioned research estimated that economic and social inflation added $4 billion in insured losses and expenses to the physician-focused segment over the decade ending in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AMA&#8217;s April 2026 Policy Research Perspective report confirmed that medical liability premiums rose for the seventh consecutive year in 2025, with 39.9% of premiums increasing &#8211; the highest rate since 2005 outside the 2024 peak of 49.8%. Increases were concentrated in Pennsylvania, where 92.2% of reported premiums rose, and New York, where 95.7% increased. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3308,945,1900,944,3915,3916],"class_list":["post-4913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-acquisition","tag-billion","tag-closes","tag-company","tag-doctors","tag-proassurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}