1. Every insurer providing medical malpractice insurance to a Missouri health care provider and every health care provider who maintains professional liability coverage through a plan of self-insurance shall submit to the director a report of all claims, both open claims filed during the reporting period and closed claims filed during the reporting period, for medical malpractice made against any of its Missouri insureds during the preceding three-month period.

2. The report shall be in writing and contain the following information:

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 383.105

  • Director: the director of the department of commerce and insurance. See Missouri Laws 383.005
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

(1) Name and address of the insured and the person working for the insured who rendered the service which gave rise to the claim, if the two are different;

(2) Specialty coverage of the insured;

(3) Insured’s policy number;

(4) Nature and substance of the claim;

(5) Date and place in which the claim arose;

(6) Name, address and age of the claimant or plaintiff;

(7) Within six months after final disposition of the claim, the amounts paid, if any, and the date and manner of disposition (judgment, settlement or otherwise);

(8) Expenses incurred; and

(9) Such additional information as the director may require.

3. As used in sections 383.100 to 383.125, “insurer” includes every insurance company authorized to transact insurance business in this state, every unauthorized insurance company transacting business pursuant to chapter 384, every risk retention group, every insurance company issuing insurance to or through a purchasing group, every entity operating under this chapter, and any other person providing insurance coverage in this state, including self-insured health care providers.