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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