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Medical Malpractice Caps Result In 16% Increase In Adverse Events

May 11, 2022

A policy paper published in May 2022 entitled The California Malpractice Cap on Noneconomic Losses: Unintended Consequences and Arguments for Reform stated, “the introduction of caps on noneconomic damages are associated with a 16% increase in adverse events. Given this, it is likely that repe[...]

Medicare Statistics Regarding Nursing Home Adverse Events And Associated Costs

March 6, 2014

In its February 2014 report entitled, “Adverse Events in Skilled Nursing Facilities: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) reported on its medical records review of 362 Medicare [...]

Most Hospital Medical Malpractice Events Are Unreported

January 14, 2012

A new report regarding a study of Medicare patients who were injured in hospitals found that only one in seven hospital errors were reported. And when the medical errors and hospital accidents were reported and subsequently investigated, hospitals rarely changed their practi[...]

Medical Malpractice Payments Statistics For 2010

November 17, 2011

Despite false perceptions created by medical malpractice insurance companies and doctors in the United States that medical malpractice claims and medical malpractice payments in the U.S. are out-of-control, the number of medical malpractice payments made on behalf of physicians fell in 2010 for[...]

Maryland Hospital Mistakes

October 10, 2011

Hospitals in Maryland are required to report serious adverse events that occur in those hospitals to the Maryland Office of Health Care Quality (OHCQ). OHCQ in turn issues a yearly report regarding the reported hospital errors and mistakes that result in serious injuries or death. The most recent re[...]

MML Rants And Raves No. 003: TV Drug Ads.

April 18, 2011

You’ve seen the television commercials: the opening scene is either a smiling woman traipsing in a field of spring flowers or an older couple holding hands and smiling at each other after all those years of marriage. The background music is light and unobtrusive. The announcer begins hawkin[...]

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