Scanning the Headlines: Medical Liability

                         

Updated on January 24, 2013

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Cantlupe, J.  Malpractice cases gobble 11% of doctors' time.  HealthLeaders Media.  Jan. 17, 2013.  http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/PHY-288410/Malpractice-Cases-Gobble-11-of-Doctors-Time##

Murtagh, L., and others.  Disclosure-and-resolution programs that include generous compensation offers may prompt a complex patient response.  Health Affairs.  31(12):2681-2689, Dec. 2012.  http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/31/12/2681.abstract?etoc

Gallegos, A.  Medical liability payouts for surgeries vary widely by state. amednews.com.  Oct. 29, 2012.  http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/10/29/prsb1029.htm?

Gallegos, A. High court to determine states’ take of medical liability awards. Physician defendants might find it easier to settle lawsuits if Medicaid programs are limited in what they can collect from injured patients, legal experts say. American Medical News, Oct. 8, 2012. http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/10/08/gvsb1008.htm

Gallegos, A.  Court refuses to decide constitutionality of state damages cap.  amednews.com.  Sept. 10, 2012.  http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/09/10/prsb0910.htm

Troxel, D.B.  Medication-related errors and liability: what can you do?  Medical Liability Monitor;37(9):8, Sept. 2012.

Cheung, K.  States fear courts will overturn malpractice caps.  FierceHealthcare.  Aug. 13, 2012.  http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/states-fear-courts-will-overturn-malpractice-caps/2012-08-13?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

Missouri Throws Out Med-Mal Cap.  States Split on Limiting Non-Economic Damages.  Payers and Providers Publishing, LLC.  August 7, 2012.  http://www.payersandproviders.com/publications/ppmw87.pdf

Hartocollis, A.  Troubled New York hospitals forgo coverage for malpractice. New York Times.  July 15, 2012.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/nyregion/some-hospitals-in-new-york-lack-a-malpractice-safety-net.html?_r=1

Roser, M.  New study:  Tort reform has not reduced health care costs in Texas.  Statesman.com.  June 20, 2012.  http://www.statesman.com/news/local/new-study-tort-reform-has-not-reduced-health-2402096.html

Bovbjerg, R., and Berenson, R.  The Value of Clinical Practice Guidelines as Malpractice "Safe Harbors".  Princeton, NJ:  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Apr. 2012.  http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/74237.quickstrike.safeharbors04.20.12.pdf

Francis A. Chilling new ways patients are suing doctors. Medscape Business of Medicine, Mar. 29, 2012. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/761006?  [free registration required to view]

Cantlupe, J.  Truthful doctors may prevent malpractice suits.  HealthLeaders Media.  Feb. 16, 2012.  http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/PHY-276660/Truthful-Doctors-May-Prevent-Malpractice-Suits

Medical Malpractice Payments Sunk to Record Low in 2011.  Washington:  Public Citizen's Congress Watch, 2012.  http://www.citizen.org/documents/npdb-report-2012.pdf

U.S. Tort Cost Trends.  Chicago:  Towers Watson, 2012.  http://www.towerswatson.com/assets/pdf/6282/Towers-Watson-Tort-Report.pdf

McClellan, F., and others.  Do poor people sue doctors more frequently?  Confronting unconscious bias and the role of cultural compentency.  Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 2012.  http://www.springerlink.com/content/0524628700905vp3/fulltext.pdf