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Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2013

February 27, 2014

On February 19, 2014, a large medical malpractice insurance company that provides medical malpractice insurance and consulting services to more than 13,000 health care providers in the United States published its annual report regarding medical malpractice payout statistics for the United States f[...]

New Report: No Growth Expected In Number Of Medical Malpractice Claims

November 16, 2013

The Hospital and Physician Professional Liability Benchmark Analysis is an annual publication of Aon Risk Solutions in conjunction with the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management. According to Aon Risk Solutions website, the annual report details the growth of integrated self-insurance st[...]

Study Finds That Defensive Medicine Does Not Affect Health Care Costs

October 31, 2013

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 do not practice defensive medicine, they will be [...]

When Are Medical Malpractice Payments Required To Be Reported To The NPDB?

October 13, 2013

The National Practitioner Data Bank (“NPDB”) is a confidential information clearinghouse created by Congress with the primary goals of improving health care quality, protecting the public, and reducing health care fraud and abuse in the U.S. The NPDB is primarily an alert or flagging sy[...]

State Medical Boards Are Failing Patients

August 25, 2013

An investigation report appearing in USA TODAY on August 20, 2013 found that thousands of doctors throughout the United States who lost their clinical privileges at hospitals and other medical facilities due to their misconduct were not punished by the state medical boards that were responsible fo[...]

Medical Malpractice Physician Survey Results

August 2, 2013

In a recently reported survey of physicians in the United States, almost 1,400 of the responding physicians reported that they had been sued for medical malpractice (approximately 40% of the respondents had been named in a medical malpractice lawsuit, with 9% being named as the only defendant a[...]

Study: Misdiagnosis And Medication Errors Are Most Common Bases Of Medical Malpractice Claims

July 21, 2013

In a study published on July 18, 2013 in the well-respected medical journal, BMJ (British Medical Journal), it was determined that misdiagnosis (failure to diagnose or delay in diagnosis) and medication errors, respectively, were the most common bases of medical malpractice claims (defined as a wr[...]

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[...]

Study Finds Diagnostic Errors Are Leading Cause Of U.S. Medical Malpractrice Claims

April 24, 2013

It is estimated that between 40,000 and 80,000 people die because of diagnostic errors every year in the United States. In a study published online in the British Medical Journal Quality and Safety on April 22, 2013, the researchers reported that diagnostic errors were the most common, most costl[...]

Four Truths About The U.S. Medical Malpractice System

March 19, 2013

In prior blogs we have discussed myths regarding the medical malpractice system in the United States. Today, we blog about truths regarding the U.S. medical malpractice system. Truth One: Medical Malpractice Cases Take A Long Time To Resolve The average amount of time between when medical malpr[...]

4 Myths Regarding Medical Malpractice Litigation In U.S. State Courts

February 1, 2013

Myth: State Courts Are Flooded With Medical Malpractice Cases Research into medical malpractice lawsuits filed in U.S. state courts in 2008 for 12 U.S. states found that medical malpractice cases represented less than 2% of all civil cases filed. In only two states, New York and New Jersey, we[...]

New York City Medical Malpractice Claim Statistics For Fiscal Year 2011

January 1, 2013

On December 27, 2012, New York City’s Comptroller, John C. Lui, issued the official City of New York Office of the Comptroller Claims Report Fiscal Year 2011 concerning all claims against the City of New York for Fiscal Year 2011 that totalled $550.4 million in payments for settlements and ju[...]

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