Damages Caps in Medical Malpractice Cases

The Impact of Damages Caps on Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums

We explore the association between state variation in statutory damages caps and the price of medical malpractice insurance. We improve on previous studies by using a comprehensive dataset of insurance premiums constructed from state department of insurance filings. We also control for the possibility that caps are endogenous to trends in premiums. We estimate an average X% change in medical ma...

Unwise and unnecessary: statutory caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases and the appellate review alternative.

In June 1999, a New York jury awarded over $76 million dollars to Gaelle Prindilus, a woman who suffered brain damage when she was an infant because of the purported carelessness of the resident doctors who delivered her at Harlem Hospital. Allegedly, the hospital staff failed to do a sonogram that would have revealed the umbilical cord tied around the plaintiff’s neck. Such headlinegrabbing st...

The role of custom in medical malpractice cases.

Res Ipsa Loquitur--Its Future in Medical Malpractice Cases

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