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Reducing the amount of malpractice incidents, not the amount of malpractice awards, will reduce the cost of malpractice insurance.
Combined, the total annual amount of malpractice settlements and judgments rose to $5.05 billion in 2001 from $3.66 billion a decade ago, adjusted for inflation.
But there are ways to encourage fair settlements and reduce the amount of malpractice by doctors without limiting the ability of badly injured patients to receive adequate compensation.
Reducing the number of bad doctors will reduce the amount of malpractice incidents, cutting the cost of malpractice insurance for the good doctors who for too long have paid to cover the mistakes of a small number of inept peers.
However, the best way to reduce the cost of malpractice insurance is to reduce the amount of malpractice, not to deprive the victims of malpractice of fair compensation for their injuries.
We used standard methods to calculate the number, percentage and mean payment amount of malpractice claims by type of resolution.
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But journalists and other researchers have linked specific amounts of malpractice payments in court cases with the specific amounts reported in the Public Use file to fairly easily crack the code, add up cases against doctors, and report on gaps in oversight.
Even a really good hospital is going to have a certain amount of medical malpractice.
Difficult situations like these led to the latest wrinkle in the consulting relationship suits that amount to malpractice litigation.
The headline and lead on yesterday's Quinnipiac University poll does amount to "malpractice".
The administration also backs legislation to limit the amount of damages in medical malpractice verdicts -- a step the White House says is necessary to control health costs, including doctors' malpractice premiums.
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