While healthcare costs continue to skyrocket, medical malpractice payments fell to a new low, undermining the argument that malpractice litigation costs contribute significantly to healthcare costs. A ...

Emergency medicine providers worry more about committing medical errors that harm patients than about triggering malpractice lawsuits, according to a study published on November 10 in JAMA Network ...

During the health care reform debate one of the big points made by conservatives was that malpractice costs are a big contributor to health inflation. Get rid of big jury awards, they said, reduce the ...

Supporters of medical malpractice laws that make it easier for patients to sue doctors say these protections are necessary to improve care. But in the current study, the risk of litigation didn't ...

While many insurers and physicians like to blame malpractice suits for skyrocketing medical costs, malpractice payments are at their lowest level in many years, according to the consumer advocacy ...

If you have not yet been sued for medical malpractice, the odds are that your luck will not hold out. One in 14 doctors faces a malpractice suit every year. This results in almost every doctor having ...

Conventional wisdom says that a lot of medical care in the United States is 'defensive medicine' prescribed because doctors want to protect themselves from the risk of malpractice lawsuits. But a new ...

Mythology implicates cosmic battles between good and evil. What then is the medical malpractice myth? According to Tom Baker, a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, the myth is ...