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Book Synopsis Capping Non-economic Awards in Medical Malpractice Trials by : Nicholas Michael Pace
Download or read book Capping Non-economic Awards in Medical Malpractice Trials written by Nicholas Michael Pace and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A model for limits on trial awards and attorneys' fees in medical malpractice cases is the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA), a law enacted in California in 1975 in the hope of controlling soaring medical malpractice insurance premiums and ensuring the continuing availability of malpractice insurance. MICRA caps awards for non-economic losses at $250,000 and limits plaintiffs' attorney fees. The authors examine the effects these limits have on both plaintiffs' awards and defendants' liabilities.
Book Synopsis Estimating the Effect of Damages Caps in Medical Malpractice Cases by : David A. Hyman
Download or read book Estimating the Effect of Damages Caps in Medical Malpractice Cases written by David A. Hyman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using claim-level data, we estimate the effect of Texas's 2003 cap on non-economic damages on jury verdicts, post-verdict payouts, and settlements in medical malpractice cases closed during 1988-2004. For pro-plaintiff jury verdicts, the cap affects 47 percent of verdicts, and reduces mean allowed non-economic damages, mean allowed verdict, and mean total payout by 73 percent, 38 percent, and 27 percent, respectively. In total, the non-econ cap reduces adjusted verdicts by $156M, but predicted payouts by only $60M. The impact on payouts is smaller because a substantial portion of the above-cap damage awards were not being paid to begin with. In cases settled without trial, the non-econ cap affects 18 percent of cases and reduces predicted mean total payout) by 18 percent. The non-econ cap has a smaller impact on settled cases than tried cases because settled cases tend to involve smaller payouts. The impact of the non-econ cap varies across plaintiff categories. Deceased, unemployed, and (likely) elderly plaintiffs suffer a larger percentage reduction in payouts than living, employed, and non-elderly plaintiffs. We also simulate the effects of different caps, and find substantial differences in cap stringency across states. Different caps reduce aggregate payouts in tried cases (all cases) by between 16 percent and 65 percent (7 percent and 42 percent). Caps on total damages have especially large effects.
Book Synopsis Medical Malpractice Liability Reform by : Henry Cohen
Download or read book Medical Malpractice Liability Reform written by Henry Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Capital Mistake by : Michael Dobbins
Download or read book A Capital Mistake written by Michael Dobbins and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medical Malpractice and the American Jury by : Neil Vidmar
Download or read book Medical Malpractice and the American Jury written by Neil Vidmar and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returns the verdict on the performance of medical malpractice juries
Book Synopsis Medical Malpractice and Compensation in Global Perspective by : Ken Oliphant
Download or read book Medical Malpractice and Compensation in Global Perspective written by Ken Oliphant and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this collection are drawn from a symposium held in Vienna in December 2010. Organised by the Institute for European Tort Law and the Chicago-Kent Law Review, in collaboration with the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, the conference drew together legal experts from 14 national or regional systems across six continents. Medical malpractice and compensation for medical injuries are issues which regularly create tension and innovation in national legal systems but the analysis of these areas is often limited to national audiences. This study examines the issues in a uniquely global context, demonstrating the breadth of approaches currently taken around the world and revealing key areas of tension and the likely direction of future developments. Wherever possible, the analysis is supported by reference to empirical data. The 14 legal systems covered in the collection are Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Scandinavia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. A general comparative introduction completes the collection.
Book Synopsis An Empirical Study of the Impact of Tort Reforms on Medical Malpractice Settlement Payments by :
Download or read book An Empirical Study of the Impact of Tort Reforms on Medical Malpractice Settlement Payments written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study evaluates the impact of six different types of tort reforms on the frequency, size and number of total annual settlements in medical malpractice cases between 1991 and 1998. Previous studies have failed to correctly identify the effective dates of reforms, to account for the retroactive applicability of striking down reforms, or used highly selected samples of jury verdicts or litigated cases. I employ a new legal data set of tort reforms, which carefully evaluates effective dates as well as when certain laws were overturned. Medical malpractice data comes from the National Practitioner Data Bank, which contains more than 100,000 malpractice settlement payments in the study time frame. The data represent the universe of cases in which doctors paid a positive settlement. Thus, the present study has significant advantages over previous work for being the first study to systematically and adequately explore the impact of tort reform on settlements (in contrast to judgments). Of the six tort reforms examined, two reforms (caps on pain-and-suffering damages and limitations on joint and several liability) reduced the number of annual payments, and two reforms (caps on pain-and-suffering damages and the periodic payment reform) reduced average awards. Caps on non-economic damages had an effect on total annual payments, although the statistical significance of that effect was weak. The joint effect of enacting all six reforms was statistically significant for reducing the number of cases but not the state level average award or total payments.
Book Synopsis The Impact of the 2003 Texas Medical Malpractice Damages Cap on Physician Supply and Insurer Payouts by : Charles Silver
Download or read book The Impact of the 2003 Texas Medical Malpractice Damages Cap on Physician Supply and Insurer Payouts written by Charles Silver and published by . This book was released on 2008* with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Non-economic Damages in Medical Malpractice Appeals : Does the Jurisdiction Make a Difference? by : Sofia Amaral-Garcia
Download or read book Non-economic Damages in Medical Malpractice Appeals : Does the Jurisdiction Make a Difference? written by Sofia Amaral-Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :322 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis The Cost of the Medical Liability System Proposals for Reform, Including H.R. 5, the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health
Download or read book The Cost of the Medical Liability System Proposals for Reform, Including H.R. 5, the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health Publisher :Amicus ISBN 13 : Total Pages :192 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Current Issues Related to Medical Liability Reform by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health
Download or read book Current Issues Related to Medical Liability Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and published by Amicus. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amicus Readers at level 1 include: a picture glossary, a table of contents, index, websites, and literacy notes located in the back of each book. Additionally, content words are introduced within the text supported by a variety of photo labels. In particular, this title describes common road signs you might see around town and tells what they mean. Includes visual literacy activity.
Book Synopsis Changing the Medical Malpractice Dispute Process by :
Download or read book Changing the Medical Malpractice Dispute Process written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Medical Malpractice Myth by : Tom Baker
Download or read book The Medical Malpractice Myth written by Tom Baker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American health care is in crisis because of exploding medical malpractice litigation. Insurance premiums for doctors and malpractice lawsuits are skyrocketing, rendering doctors both afraid and unable to afford to continue to practice medicine. Undeserving victims sue at the drop of a hat, egged on by greedy lawyers, and receive eye-popping awards that insurance companies, hospitals, and doctors themselves struggle to pay. The plaintiffs and lawyers always win; doctors, and the nonlitigious, always lose; and affordable health care is the real victim. This, according to Tom Baker, is the myth of medical malpractice, and as a reality check he offers The Medical Malpractice Myth, a stunning dismantling of this familiar, but inaccurate, picture of the health care industry. Are there too many medical malpractice suits? No, according to Baker; there is actually a great deal more medical malpractice, with only a fraction of the cases ever seeing the inside of a courtroom. Is too much litigation to blame for the malpractice insurance crisis? No, for that we can look to financial trends and competitive behavior in the insurance industry. Are these lawsuits frivolous? Very rarely. Point by point, Baker—a leading authority on insurance and law—pulls together the research that demolishes the myths that have taken hold about medical malpractice and suggests a series of legal reforms that would help doctors manage malpractice insurance while also improving patient safety and medical accountability. President Bush has made medical malpractice reform a priority in his last term in office, but if history is any indication, legislative reform would only worsen the situation and perpetuate the gross misunderstanding of it. The debate surely will be transformed by The Medical Malpractice Myth, a book aimed squarely at general readers but with radical conclusions that speak to the highest level of domestic policymaking.
Book Synopsis Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts by : Jennifer Arlen
Download or read book Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts written by Jennifer Arlen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on issues of vital importance to those seeking to understand and reform the tort system, this volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach, including theoretical economic analysis, empirical analysis, socio-economic analysis, and behavioral anal
Book Synopsis Medical Malpractice Litigation by : Bernard S. Black
Download or read book Medical Malpractice Litigation written by Bernard S. Black and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on an unusually rich trove of data, the authors have refuted more politically convenient myths in one book than most academics do in a lifetime." —Nicholas Bagley, professor of law, University of Michigan Law School "Synthesizing decades of their own and others’ research on medical liability, the authors unravel what we know and don’t know about our medical malpractice system, why neither patients nor doctors are being rightly served, and what economics can teach us about the path forward." —Anupam B. Jena, Harvard Medical School Over the past 50 years, the United States experienced three major medical malpractice crises, each marked by dramatic increases in the cost of malpractice liability insurance. These crises fostered a vigorous politicized debate about the causes of the premium spikes, and the impact on access to care and defensive medicine. State legislatures responded to the premium spikes by enacting damages caps on non-economic, punitive, or total damages and Congress has periodically debated the merits of a federal cap on damages. However, the intense political debate has been marked by a shortage of evidence, as well as misstatements and overclaiming. The public is confused about answers to some basic questions. What caused the premium spikes? What effect did tort reform actually have? Did tort reform reduce frivolous litigation? Did tort reform actually improve access to health care or reduce defensive medicine? Both sides in the debate have strong opinions about these matters, but their positions are mostly talking points or are based on anecdotes. Medical Malpractice Litigation provides factual answers to these and other questions about the performance of the med mal system. The authors, all experts in the field and from across the political spectrum, provide an accessible, fact-based response to the questions ordinary Americans and policymakers have about the performance of the med mal litigation system.
Book Synopsis Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System by : William M. Sage
Download or read book Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System written by William M. Sage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-12 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical malpractice lawsuits are common and controversial in the United States. Since early 2002, doctors' insurance premiums for malpractice coverage have soared. As Congress and state governments debate laws intended to stabilize the cost of insurance, doctors continue to blame lawyers and lawyers continue to blame doctors and insurance companies. This book, which is the capstone of three years' comprehensive research funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, goes well beyond the conventional debate over tort reform and connects medical liability to broader trends and goals in American health policy. Contributions from leading figures in health law and policy marshal the best available information, present new empirical evidence, and offer cutting-edge analysis of potential reforms involving patient safety, liability insurance and tort litigation.
Book Synopsis Medical Liability Reform by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Download or read book Medical Liability Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
