Medical liability crisis: an international problem

Medical liability crisis: an international problem.

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 2003, 45: 363–363 363 ‘On the influence of abnormal parturition: difficult labours, premature birth, and asphyxia neonatorum, on the mental and physical condition of the child, especially in relation to deformities’. In the third paragraph he notes ‘the object of this communication is to show that the act of birth does occasionally imprint upon the nervo...

The current medical liability insurance crisis: an overview of the problem, its catalysts and solutions.

Editorial: medical professional liability crisis in Asia Pacific.

Health care in crisis: the need for medical liability reform.

The forgotten third: liability insurance and the medical malpractice crisis.

Although the most visible manifestations of medical malpractice involve patient safety and the legal process, the availability and affordability of liability insurance largely determine the direction of medical malpractice policy. Scientific and industrial developments since the first modern malpractice crisis in the 1970s reveal major problems with the structure and regulation of liability ins...