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South Dakota Medical Malpractice Payouts Up Last Year, But So Were South Dakota Medical Malpractice Insurers’ Profits

August 25, 2019

South Dakota’s Argus Leader reported on August 2, 2019 that South Dakota medical malpractice payouts on behalf of South Dakota health care providers increased to more than $3.5 million in 2018 (an increased of $1,092,500 from 2017) yet South Dakota’s largest medical malpractice insurer r[...]

Emergency Departments Are The Fourth Most Common Healthcare Delivery Location For Medical Malpractice Claims

August 4, 2019

A report from Coverys released in June 2019 entitled “Emergency Department Risks: Through the Lens of Liability Claims,” which explored the root causes of medical malpractice claims occurring in the Emergency Department (“ED”) based on an analysis of 1,362 ED-related closed m[...]

Study Finds Vascular Events, Infections, And Cancers Account For 75% Of Serious Misdiagnosis-Related Harms Alleged In Medical Malpractice Cases

July 27, 2019

A study published online on July 11, 2019 in the medical journal Diagnosis, the Official Journal of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), found that vascular events, infections, and cancers account for about three-fourths of serious misdiagnosis-related harms (morbidity/mortality) in [...]

Report Discusses The Impact Of Medical Errors In Massachusetts

June 25, 2019

The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety’s June 2019 report entitled “The Financial and Human Cost of Medical Error … and how Massachusetts can lead the way on patient safety” found “almost 62,000 medical errors [in Massachusetts], which were responsible for over $617[...]

$2M Illinois Medical Malpractice Judgment For Child’s Permanent Hand Injury

June 18, 2019

On May 31, 2019, an Illinois judge entered a judgment in the amount of $2,022,195 against the defendant hospital, two doctors, and a medical practice as a result of a permanent hand injury suffered by a two-year-old child as a result of medical negligence in the emergency room. The Illinois medical [...]

CDC Study: Three In Five Pregnancy-Related Deaths In U.S. Were Preventable

May 17, 2019

The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report dated May 10, 2019 entitled “Vital Signs: Pregnancy-Related Deaths, United States, 2011–2015, and Strategies for Prevention, 13 States, 2013–2017” concluded that “Approximately three in five pregnancy-related deaths were pre[...]

Most Kidney Stone Medical Malpractice Cases End In Favor Of The Defendants

May 13, 2019

An article presented during the 2019 meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) reported “Most kidney stone-related malpractice suits end in a verdict in favor of the physician or a hospital, even after appeal.” The investigators analyzed 33 appealed medical malpractice cases i[...]

U.S. Physicians With Multiple Medical Malpractice Claims Not Likely To Relocate But More Likely To Switch To Smaller Practice

April 7, 2019

An article published in The New England Journal of Medicine on March 28, 2019 entitled “Changes in Practice among Physicians with Malpractice Claims” concluded: “Physicians with multiple malpractice claims were no more likely to relocate geographically than those with no claims, bu[...]

Study Of Pediatric Medical Malpractice Claims

April 1, 2019

The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States, analyzed 1,215 written demands for payment (medical malpractice claims) filed on behalf of pediatric patients that closed from 2008 through 2017. The study included all medical malpractice cla[...]

USA TODAY Analysis Finds High Childbirth Complication Rates In Some U.S. Hospitals

March 20, 2019

A USA TODAY article entitled “Hospitals blame moms when childbirth goes wrong. Secret data suggest it’s not that simple” stated that “[a] USA TODAY analysis of billing data from 7 million births found about one in eight hospitals have complication rates of at least double the nor[...]

New Study Finds Hospital Births During The Night Or On Weekends Are Riskier

March 17, 2019

A new study published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal entitled “Clinical capital and the risk of maternal labor and delivery complications: Hospital scheduling, timing and cohort turnover effects” found that the quantity of delivery complications in hospitals are substantially[...]

Medical Malpractice Statistics In The United States

February 18, 2019

CRICO Strategies (“CRICO”), a division of The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions Incorporated, recently issued its report entitled Medical Malpractice in America: A 10-Year Assessment With Insights (“Report”). The 123,512 medical professional liabi[...]

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