Oncology Medical Malpractice Claims Statistics
May 10, 2020
The Doctors Company, the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurance carrier in the United States, reviewed medical oncology claims that closed between 2012 and 2018. The March 2019 analysis found 101 medical oncology claims and two surgical oncology claims. The Doctors Company excluded th[...]
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Nursing Homes Response To Covid-19 – Heroes Or Villains?
April 17, 2020
Nursing homes in the United States have been especially hard hit by the coronavirus (COVID-19), which is not necessarily unexpected due to their residents often being elderly and having underlying medical conditions that make them more susceptible to suffering severe cases of the virus. However, the[...]
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Medscape Cardiologist Malpractice Report 2019
February 10, 2020
Medscape Cardiologist Malpractice Report 2019, published on January 22, 2020, reported that 65% of the cardiologists completing a survey reported that they had been named as a defendant in at least one medical malpractice lawsuit, compared to 59% for physicians overall. The cardiologists reported th[...]
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Medical Malpractice Claims Against Anesthesiologists
January 4, 2020
The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, recently published a study of closed medical malpractice claims against anesthesiologists entitled, “Making Further Advancements in Anesthesia Care Safety,” in which it found: “the two most commo[...]
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Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2018
December 31, 2019
An analysis of medical malpractice payouts for 2018 from the data collected by the National Practitioner Data Bank found that total amount of medical malpractice payouts increased by 2.91% in 2018 ($4,031,987,700). The average medical malpractice payout in 2018 was $348,065. There were 11,584 medica[...]
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Analysis Of Medical Malpractice Claims Against Radiologists
December 21, 2019
The Doctors Company, which is the largest medical malpractice insurer owned by physicians in the United States, has issued a report entitled “Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Closed Claims Study” in which it reports on the findings of its analysis of 596 claims (written demands fo[...]
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News From Medscape’s Medical Malpractice Report 2019
November 23, 2019
For Medscape’s Malpractice Report 2019, 4,360 physicians (68% were men; 57% were age 55 and over) in 29 medical specialities were surveyed with regard to whether they had been sued for medical malpractice and how their experiences affected how they treat their patients. The survey was conducte[...]
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Death Statistics For The United States (2017)
September 11, 2019
A total of 2,813,503 resident deaths were registered in the United States in 2017. The 10 leading causes accounted for 74.0% of all deaths in the United States in 2017. In 2017, the 10 leading causes of death (heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke,[...]
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