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Category: Medical Malpractice

Lower Cost Malpractice Insurance: Litigation is Decreasing

Dr. Jena, of Mass General and Harvard Medical School, studied malpractice cases and her findings were published in the AMA’s Archives in Internal Medicine. Interestingly, the study found that of all malpractice insurance claims where some defense cost was incurred, only 55.2 percent resulted in litigation.Of those malpractice insurance cases that resulted in litigation, there were differences by specialty; for example, 46.7 percent of the claims were against anesthesiologists and 62.6 percent of the claims were against OB/GYNs

Medical Malpractice Insurance and Social Media

Medical Malpractice Insurance loss ratios can be protected from HIPAA claims by doing some simple risk management when it comes to social media. First do not “friend” any current or past patients. If they invite you to be a friend, politely turn them down.

How To Avoid Being Sued For Medical Malpractice

Why males over females, male physicians general surgeons or Ob’s can have more tunnel vision and be seen as less caring. Meaning they concentrate so hard on doing the procedure that they can forget there is a scared person they are working on.