Medical Malpractice Payments In The US From 2000 To 2025

November 10, 2026

A comprehensive analysis of every medical malpractice payment reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank from 2000 to 2025 (529,804 medical malpractice payments that totaled $136.4 billion) reported: Average malpractice payment has increased steadily, with a notable dip during COVID-19 (2020–[...]

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U.S. Medical Malpractice Statistics: 2005 To 2015

December 25, 2016

The National Practitioner Data Bank (“NPDB”) has published medical malpractice statistics for the United States for the period from 2005 to 2015. During the ten-year period, when the population of the United States was 321,986,783, there were 148,909 medical malpractice payments and 409[...]

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