Download or read book Florida s Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis written by Adam William Herbert and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Malpractice Litigation written by Bernard S. Black and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on an unusually rich trove of data, the authors have refuted more politically convenient myths in one book than most academics do in a lifetime." —Nicholas Bagley, professor of law, University of Michigan Law School "Synthesizing decades of their own and others’ research on medical liability, the authors unravel what we know and don’t know about our medical malpractice system, why neither patients nor doctors are being rightly served, and what economics can teach us about the path forward." —Anupam B. Jena, Harvard Medical School Over the past 50 years, the United States experienced three major medical malpractice crises, each marked by dramatic increases in the cost of malpractice liability insurance. These crises fostered a vigorous politicized debate about the causes of the premium spikes, and the impact on access to care and defensive medicine. State legislatures responded to the premium spikes by enacting damages caps on non-economic, punitive, or total damages and Congress has periodically debated the merits of a federal cap on damages. However, the intense political debate has been marked by a shortage of evidence, as well as misstatements and overclaiming. The public is confused about answers to some basic questions. What caused the premium spikes? What effect did tort reform actually have? Did tort reform reduce frivolous litigation? Did tort reform actually improve access to health care or reduce defensive medicine? Both sides in the debate have strong opinions about these matters, but their positions are mostly talking points or are based on anecdotes. Medical Malpractice Litigation provides factual answers to these and other questions about the performance of the med mal system. The authors, all experts in the field and from across the political spectrum, provide an accessible, fact-based response to the questions ordinary Americans and policymakers have about the performance of the med mal litigation system.
Download or read book The Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis written by Mimi Marchev and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Florida Insurance Commissioner to the Florida Legislature on Medical Malpractice Insurance in the State of Florida written by Florida. Insurance Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prenatal Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prenatal care programs have proven effective in improving birth outcomes and preventing low birthweight. Yet over one-fourth of all pregnant women in the United States do not begin prenatal care in the first 3 months of pregnancy, and for some groupsâ€"such as black teenagersâ€"participation in prenatal care is declining. To find out why, the authors studied 30 prenatal care programs and analyzed surveys of mothers who did not seek prenatal care. This new book reports their findings and offers specific recommendations for improving the nation's maternity system and increasing the use of prenatal care programs.
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Medical Association is Wrong written by Thomas G. Goddard and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis written by Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Committee on Medicine and Law and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Task Force on Medical Liability and Malpractice written by United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Task Force on Medical Liability and Malpractice and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advances in Patient Safety written by Kerm Henriksen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.
Download or read book Causes of the Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis written by Rand Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Addressing the Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis written by Emily V. Cornell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Medical Association is Wrong There is No Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis written by Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Public Affairs Department and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Malpractice Myths and Realities written by Thomas Owen McGarity and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is suffering both from a healthcare crisis, one of the symptoms of which is an unnecessarily high number of malpractice injuries, and from an insurance crisis. There is, however, no tort lawsuit crisis - in medical malpractice liability or otherwise. The insurance industry, managed-care companies, and organizations representing healthcare providers have invested a great amount of money in political contributions and media campaigns to convince policy-makers and the public that the civil justice system is fraught with meritless claims and is consequently the cause of the recent increase in malpractice premiums. But a mounting number of studies are finding that the tort system in general and malpractice liability in particular have been quite stable for the past two decades. And examinations of insurance industry practices reveal insurers' business decisions as the source of premium volatility - not the amount insurers are paying out on malpractice claim. More specifically, the recent premium spikes were insurance companies' attempt to make up for losses that they incurred as a result of offering artificially low premiums to increase their market share and depending instead on projected income from risky investments to meet future payout obligations. In addition to shifting the blame for skyrocketing malpractice premiums from insurance companies to the civil justice system, corporate interests and the politicians they support have shifted the blame for the alarming lack of access to affordable, quality healthcare from the for-profit entities that run the U.S. healthcare system to malpractice victims and their attorneys. More specifically, advocates of restrictions on medical malpractice liability claim that rampant lawsuit abuse is driving physicians to practice so-called defensive medicine and to leave the medical field, both of which increase healthcare costs and diminish healthcare availability. Given the overwhelming evidence of stability in the civil justice system, it is not surprising that neither the defensive-medicine claim nor the physician-flight claim withstand empirical scrutiny. The Bush administration's primary support for the claim that doctors are ordering unnecessary tests and procedures out of fear of being sued in a study that two non-partisan congressional research agencies have dismissed as unreliable because it projects extremely limited findings onto the entire nation. More appropriately designed studies have found little or no evidence that fear of liability results in unnecessary medical expenditures. And regarding the supposed physician flight, the Government Accountability Office recently reported that the physician supply in this country has been increasing faster than the population for the past decade. In short, the Bush administration, other tort reform politicians, and big businesses have fabricated a lawsuit crisis to defraud the American people of their right to redress for wrongful injury and their ability to hold the perpetrators - no matter how wealthy and powerful - accountable in the civil justice system. Information readily available to the administration and federal legislators promoting tort reform makes clear that civil justice system is not inundated with baseless claims, that insurance companies' losses in malpractice lawsuits are not driving premium hikes, that doctors are not disappearing, and that there is no surge in defensive medicine responsible for increased healthcare costs. Thus, the restrictions on medical malpractice liability that President Bush insists Congress must enact serve only to provide immunity (1) for healthcare providers who commit malpractice by denying victims access to the courts, and (2) for insurance companies, who raised premiums to recover from losses incurred as a result of their imprudent business practices and who now seek to evade responsibility for this imprudence and to maximize future profits by blaming malpractice victims for the premium hikes. Furthermore, the healthcare crisis will continue as long as the nation's focus remains fixed on a chimerical cause of that crisis - i.e., the civil justice system - instead of the real causes - i.e., the insurance, managed-care, and pharmaceutical industries that largely control healthcare delivery in the United States. Addressing the healthcare crisis requires ensuring everyone access to quality healthcare, which, in turn, requires reining in these corporations, not immunizing them from citizens' check on the public health risks posed by their profit-maximizing behavior.
Download or read book Causes of the Medical Malpractice Insurance crisis written by Patricia Munch Danzon and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis in Pennsylvania written by Deborah E. Parthemore and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
