New York patients may want to pay heed to a New Jersey Supreme Court case involving a physician who had no medical malpractice insurance. On Sept. 29, a 5-2 split decision decreed that practitioners lacking malpractice insurance to any degree are not to be disciplined by the courts, but by the state’s medical board instead. However, if the medical facility employing the insured physician failed to conduct an appropriate amount of due diligence before making the hire, it may be held liable.