According to the American Medical Association (AMA), 34% of all physicians in the United States have been sued for medical malpractice during their medical careers. Almost half of U.S. physicians who are 55 and older have been sued for medical… Read More
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New Study Finds Cardiologists Comfortable With Greater Clinical Uncertainty Following Medical Malpractice Reforms
On June 6, 2018, JAMA Cardiology published the results of a study that analyzed “the association of damage caps with specific cardiac care decisions that involve clinical uncertainty, high patient risks, and significant malpractice risk.” The study “found evidence that… Read More
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Study Finds Greater Medical Spending Results In Fewer Medical Malpractice Claims
A study published on October 5, 2015 in BMJ that sought to investigate whether a higher use of resources by physicians is associated with a reduced risk of medical malpractice claims concluded that “[o]ur findings suggest that greater resource use, whether it… Read More
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Study Finds That Defensive Medicine Does Not Affect Health Care Costs
One of the most noisy cries for medical malpractice tort reform in the United States is that medical providers engage in so-called defensive medicine in states where medical malpractice tort reform has not been enacted because they fear that if they… Read More
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Study: Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms Do Not Decrease Defensive Medicine
The results of a study conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change that was funded by the National Institute for Health Care Reform and which appears in the August 2013 edition of the journal Health Affairs found that office-based physicians… Read More
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2012 Republican Party Platform And “Tort Reform”
The Republican Party has published its 2012 Republican Party Platform in which it addresses many issues, including “tort reform” under the heading, “Reducing Costs through Tort Reform,” in which it states: Frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits have ballooned the cost of healthcare for the average American…. Read More
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Report On Vermont’s Medical Malpractice Proposed Reforms
On January 30, 2012, the “Medical Malpractice Reforms Report and Proposal of the [Vermont] Secretary of Administration” (“Report”) was forwarded to the Vermont Legislature to address medical malpractice reform issues/proposals in Vermont. First, Some Vermont Medical Malpractice Statistics The Report noted… Read More
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Newt Gingrich’s Views On Medical Malpractice
What Is Newt Gingrich’s Position On Medical Malpractice Claims In The United States? In his opinion published in The New York Times on February 21, 2010, Republican Presidential Hopeful (and current leading Republican contender) Newt Gingrich wrote as follows: CAT scans,… Read More
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Texas Continues To Injure The Injured
Texas Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Legislation That Passed In 2003 In 2003, Texas passed one of the most restrictive medical malpractice reform laws that limited the amount that victims could recover from any one negligent health care provider to $250,000.00. Texas tort… Read More
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HEALTH CARE COSTS AND TORT REFORM
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has stated that tort reform might reduce health care costs by 0.5 percent, saving approximately $11 billion out of a total of $2.5 trillion in health care costs annually. The actual costs of malpractice insurance… Read More
