2026 Medscape Physicians And Malpractice Report
September 27, 2026
The 2026 Medscape Physicians and Malpractice Report, published on September 22, 2026, reported that one-third of all physicians in the United States have been a sole or co-defendant in a medical malpractice lawsuit, according to Medscape’s latest survey of physicians across more than 29 specia[...]
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When Are Medical Malpractice Damage Caps Fair And Reasonable?
July 8, 2013
NEVER. Some U.S. states have enacted laws to limit the amount of damages that can be recovered by victims of medical malpractice from the negligent medical providers who were solely in the position to prevent the injuries they caused by simply providing the minimum level of care that their[...]
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Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2012
May 4, 2013
The results of an analysis of the medical malpractice payouts during 2012 that are reported in the National Practitioner Data Bank have been recently published. The analysis found that there were 12,142 total medical malpractice payouts in the United States during 2012, representing $3.6 billion i[...]
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We’re Celebrating One Full Year Of Daily Blog Postings!
March 4, 2012
Well, we have reached a significant milestone — one complete year of our daily blog postings (we started daily posting in our Blog on March 5, 2011 and have posted every day since). When we first started to blog, we thought that it might be difficult to find relevant, interesting informat[...]
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