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SUBMITTER: Seabury SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4278571 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seabury Seth A SA Helland Eric E Jena Anupam B AB
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20141022 11
The impact of medical malpractice reforms on the average size of malpractice payments in specific physician specialties is unknown and subject to debate. We analyzed a national sample of malpractice claims for the period 1985-2010, merged with information on state liability reforms, to estimate the impact of state noneconomic damages caps on average malpractice payment size for physicians overall and for ten different specialty categories. We then compared how the effects differed according to t ...[more]