The medical malpractice crisis has smoldered for many years with few new ideas regarding how to improve matters. Physicians promote limits on plaintiff noneconomic damages, but this has been ferociously resisted by the legal community. They argue that limiting remuneration to patients harmed by negligent practices is fundamentally wrong. We hypothesize that malpractice litigation is out of cont...

Malpractice insurance provides for payments to patients so that a physician need not compensate harmed patients from personal assets. The bankruptcy system also protects a debtor's assets from seizure by creditors. In this paper, we estimate the e ect of personal asset protection on physician practice decisions. Variation in bankruptcy law provides exogenous variation in risk to physician perso...

The use of conebeam computed tomography (CBCT) carries with it medicolegal risks of which the practitioner should be aware. These include licensing and malpractice liability concerns. A practitioner who intends to take and/or use CBCT scans should seek advice from his malpractice carrier before doing so. All scans should be read by someone competent to interpret them. Using the services of an o...

By many accounts, the United States is in the midst of its third medical malpractice "crisis." Physicians in several states are facing high and rising premiums. The largest national medical malpractice carrier and some large multistate physician-backed liability firms have recently left the market. Rising premiums are traced largely to increases in claims severity. Capping malpractice payments ...

Background: Multiple barriers exist for referral of emergency department (ED) patients to specialists, particularly in rural communities; however, little is known about malpractice as a potential barrier. Study Objective: In this preliminary study, we sought to evaluate specialist malpractice concern as a perceived barrier to specialist referral for rural physicians practicing in EDs. Methods: ...

We used data from the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) to study the growth of physician malpractice payments. Judgments at trial account for 4 percent of all malpractice payments; settlements account for the remaining 96 percent. The average payment grew 52 percent between 1991 and 2003 (4 percent per year) and now exceeds dollar 12 per capita each year. These increases are consistent wit...

background and aims: complaints of obstetrics and gynecology specialist are on the top of complaint from doctors and these have been increasing with increased population and births. in this regard, parallel to industrialization of life, tendency to cesarean against vaginal delivery has been increased in patients. all the cases of complaint increased from 1995 until 2010. in multiple studies and...

PURPOSE To analyze the types of medical malpractice, medical errors, and medical disputes in a university hospital for the proposal of countermeasures that maximize the efficiency of hospital management, medical departments, and healthcare providers. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study retrospectively reviewed and analyzed 55 closed civil lawsuits among 64 medical lawsuit cases carried out in Pu...