Download or read book The Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis in Texas Its Impact on the Public and Physicians of Texas written by Texas Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The medical malpractice insurance crisis in Texas written by Texas Medical Association. Professional Liability Insurance Survey and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medical Malpractice impact of Texas Liability Limits written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the impact of the medical malpractice liability limits imposed by Texas HB 4 (2003 Regular Session) on: (1) the number of companies writing the insurance in Texas, (2) Texas medical malpractice insurance rates, and (3) the number of physicians practicing in Texas.

Download or read book The Impact of the 2003 Texas Medical Malpractice Damages Cap on Physician Supply and Insurer Payouts written by Charles Silver and published by . This book was released on 2008* with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by Patricia Munch Danzon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How often are patients seriously injured through faulty medical care? And what proportion of these people receive compensation for their injuries and suffering? This is the first book that tries to answer these questions in a careful, scholarly way. Among its important findings is that at most one in ten patients injured through medical negligence receives compensation through the malpractice system. The focus of public attention has been on the rising cost to physicians of malpractice insurance. Although Patricia Danzon analyzes this question thoroughly, her view is much broader, encompassing the malpractice system itself--the legal process, the liability insurance markets, and the feedback to health care. As an economist, she is concerned with the efficiency or cost-effectiveness of the system from the point of view of its three social purposes: deterrence of medical negligence, compensation of injured patients, and the spreading of risk. To provide evidence of the operation of the system in practice, to distinguish fact from allegation, and to evaluate proposals for reform, she has undertaken a detailed empirical analysis of malpractice claims and insurance markets. It is a major contribution to our understanding of how the system works in practice and how it might be improved.

Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 1378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Download or read book The Medical Malpractice Myth written by Tom Baker and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n January 2005, President Bush declared the medical malpractice liability system out of control.The president's speech was merely an echo of what doctors and politicians (mostly Republicans) have been saying for years - that medical malpractice premiums are skyrocketing due to an explosion in malpractice litigation. Along comes Baker, direct...

Download or read book Final Report of the Texas Medical Professional Liability Study Commission to the 65th Texas Legislature written by Texas Medical Professional Liability Study Commission and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Joint Committee Report to the 70th Legislature of the State of Texas written by Texas. Legislature. House/Senate Joint Committee on Liability Insurance and Tort Law and Procedure and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cheaper to Kill Than to Maim written by Dan Barrett and published by Professional Solutions Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at the ever-diminishing rights of Texans to sue for medical malpractice, the movement to further restrict those rights and the difficult -- but not impossible -- task of fighting for compensation for wrongs done you by institutional medicine.

Download or read book The Medical Liability Insurance Crisis written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 254 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 Insurance Counsel Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by Richard E. Anderson and published by Humana Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books such as this one are deceptively difficult to create. The general subject is neither happy, nor easy, nor most anyone’s idea of fun. M- practice litigation, however, has become a central fact of existence in the practice of medicine today. This tsunami of lawsuits has led to a high volume of irreconcilable rhetoric and ultimately threatens the stability of the entire health care system. Our goal has been to provide a source of reliable information on a subject of importance to all who provide me- cal care in the United States. The book is divided into four sections. Part I gives an overview of insurance in general and discusses the organization of professional - ability insurance companies in particular. Part II focuses on the litigation process itself with views from the defense and plaintiff bar, and the physician as both expert and defendant. Part III looks at malpractice litigation from the viewpoint of the practicing physician. Some of the chapters are broadly relevant to all doctors—the rise of e-medicine, and the importance of effective communication, for example. The other ch- ters are constructed around individual medical specialties, but discuss issues that are of potential interest to all. Part IV looks ahead. “The Case for Legal Reform” presents changes in medical-legal jurisprudence that can be of immediate benefit. The final two chapters take a broader perspective on aspects of our entire health care system and its interface with law and public policy.

Download or read book Continuing Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis 1975 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 676 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 108 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: