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2. 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.Last year, more than half of these verdicts ...

3. 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]

4. Health care workforce crisis: Why is New Mexico losing doctors?

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   Think New Mexico reported that in 2022 New Mexico had the largest medical malpractice insurance loss per state "Just being sued causes extreme stress and anxiety on a physician," Clark said.

5. Malpractice Insurance Prices Are Stopping Small Clinics From ...

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   Even in states where laws protect minors’ access to gender-affirming care, malpractice insurance premiums are keeping small and independent clinics from treating patients.

6. Defensive medicine - Wikipedia

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   Defensive medicine is a reaction to the rising costs of malpractice insurance premiums and patients’ biases on suing for missed or delayed diagnosis or treatment but not for being overdiagnosed. Physicians in the United States are at highest risk of being sued, and overtreatment is common. The number of lawsuits against physicians in the USA ...

7. Professional liability insurance - Wikipedia

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   Professional liability insurance (PLI), also called professional indemnity insurance (PII) and commonly known as errors & omissions (E&O) in the US, is a form of liability insurance which helps protect professional advising, consulting, and service-providing individuals and companies from bearing the full cost of defending against a negligence ...

8. Non-economic damages caps - Wikipedia

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   With regard to the latter, proponents of tort reform argue that large, unpredictable damages causes an increase in the cost of medical malpractice insurance for healthcare professionals [4] and encourages the practice of defensive medicine whereby medical practitioners agree to unnecessary treatment in order to decrease the likelihood of future ...

9. With US health care costs skyrocketing, these doctors are ...

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   With US health care costs skyrocketing, these doctors are ditching insurance for a subscription-based model — is this the future of care? Victoria Vesovski October 10, 2024 at 8:05 AM