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Recent Study Of The Impact Of Medical Malpractice Caps On Average Malpractice Payment Size

October 26, 2014

The authors of a study published online on October 22, 2014 by HealthAffairs sought to investigate the impact of medical malpractice caps on noneconomic damages on the average size of medical malpractice payments for ten medical specialties as well as for physicians overall. The researchers found[...]

A Recent Study Of Closed Anesthesia Medical Malpractice Claims

October 23, 2014

In a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management that is entitled “Analysis of Patient Injury Based on Anesthesiology Closed Claims Data from a Major Malpractice Insurer,” the authors reviewed 607 anesthesia-related medical malpractice claims reported [...]

Does New York Allow Negligent Physicians To Practice Without Discipline?

October 7, 2014

In a report published in May 2014 by the New York Public Interest Research Group Fund (“NYPIRG,” a nonpartisan, not-for-profit whose mission is to affect policy reforms while training New Yorkers to be citizen advocates) entitled “Questionable Doctors[:] Negligent Doctors And T[...]

Only 4 Of 25 Florida Physicians With The Most Medical Malpractice Payouts Have Lost Their License

September 25, 2014

A review of the 25 physicians in Florida who had the largest number of medical malpractice payouts as a result of judgments and settlements found that only four of them had lost their license to practice medicine in Florida. Of the four who lost their Florida medical license, three lost their lice[...]

Diagnostic Errors Are A Major Factor In U.S. Medical Malpractice Claims

September 16, 2014

The Doctors Company, the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States whose unabashed mission is to be “fiercely committed to relentlessly defending, protecting, and rewarding our members with the industry’s most aggressive claims defense, unrivaled protection, a[...]

U.S. Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing On “More Than 1,000 Preventable Deaths a Day Is Too Many: The Need to Improve Patient Safety”

July 21, 2014

On July 17, 2014, the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging held a hearing on the subject entitled, “More Than 1,000 Preventable Deaths a Day Is Too Many: The Need to Improve Patient Safety.” The Subcommittee Cha[...]

U.S. Senator Boxer’s Office Issues “Medical Errors” Report

May 4, 2014

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s Office recently issued a report entitled “Medical Errors” that discusses “the most common and devastating medical errors.” In July 2013, Senator Boxer contacted Partnership for Patients (a public-private partnership funded through the Affor[...]

The 5 Most Common Preventable Nursing Home Adverse Events

April 22, 2014

According to the February 2014 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) entitled, “Adverse Events in Skilled Nursing Facilities: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries,” five physicians were contracted to review th[...]

Study Finds 12 Million In U.S. Misdiagnosed Every Year; One-Half Are Potentially Harmed

April 18, 2014

In a study published on April 16, 2014 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Quality & Safety, researchers estimated that 12 million people in the United States are misdiagnosed in an outpatient clinic setting each year (the researchers calculated the incidence of new cases of misdiagnosis i[...]

Statistics Regarding Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements

March 5, 2014

Nursing homes are increasingly incorporating arbitration agreements into admission documents signed by incoming residents that require claims arising out of the care (or the lack of care) at the nursing home to be arbitrated instead of being filed in court and tried before a jury. By agreeing ah[...]

Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2013

February 27, 2014

On February 19, 2014, a large medical malpractice insurance company that provides medical malpractice insurance and consulting services to more than 13,000 health care providers in the United States published its annual report regarding medical malpractice payout statistics for the United States f[...]

Maryland Physician Discipline Statistics For Fiscal Year 2013

January 21, 2014

The Maryland Board of Physicians Annual Report to the Legislative Policy Committee for Fiscal Year 2013 that was forwarded on November 7, 2013 stated that the Board had issued 1,800 initial medical licenses, 152 reinstated medical licenses, and registered 2,650 unlicensed medical practitione[...]

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