Medical Malpractice
Medical Malpractice Reform and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Using a variety of empirical specifications, there was no statistically significant evidence that noneconomic damage caps exerted any meaningful influence on the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance. The findings suggest…
Tort Law and Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums
This paper estimated the effects of tort law and insurer investment returns on physician malpractice insurance premiums. Data were collected on tort law from 1991 through 2004, and multivariate regression…