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2. Medical malpractice in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Doctors' groups, patients, and insurance companies have criticized medical malpractice litigation as expensive, adversarial, unpredictable, and inefficient. They claim that the cost of medical malpractice litigation in the United States has steadily increased at almost 12 percent annually since 1975. [26]

3. Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act - Wikipedia

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   Regulation also has emboldened malpractice insurance carriers to take cases all the way to trial, instead of settling the cases, because their potential exposure is capped. This significantly increases the cost of litigation. Those attorneys who do take medical malpractice cases are very careful only to take very large damages cases.

4. Medical malpractice payouts are ballooning—and insurers are ...

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   From 2013 to 2023, the American court system saw a roughly 67% increase in the number of medical malpractice verdicts awarding $10 million or more. ... In the insurance industry, we call this ...

5. Medical malpractice - Wikipedia

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   In common law jurisdictions, medical malpractice liability is normally based on the tort of negligence. [3]Although the law of medical malpractice differs significantly between nations, as a broad general rule liability follows when a health care practitioner does not show a fair, reasonable and competent degree of skill when providing medical care to a patient. [3]

6. MedPro Group - Wikipedia

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   1907 – Medical Protective is founded by Byron H. Somers and Charles M. Niezer and offers pre-paid legal service coverage to healthcare providers. [6] 1910 – Medical Protective expands coverage to include indemnity coverage. Medical Protective offers medical professional liability insurance policies with limits of $5,000/$15,000 for $15 a ...

7. Healthcare reform debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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   5.8 Medical malpractice costs and limits on ... who was a strong supporter of the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill which would instate a national medical insurance program ...