Claims of a medical malpractice crisis stem in large part from recent increases in malpractice insurance rates, with premiums for some individual doctors set in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Most doctors, actuaries, and insurance officials attribute these costs to the lack of caps on liability awards....

In a new Lancet paper my colleagues and I point out that the World Bank has failed in its anti-malaria program. So what now?

The U.S. Senate has announced that it will be debating new legislation to reform America’s medical malpractice law in early May. Is the Senate likely to pass useful reforms? What types of reform should they consider? What is the appropriate role of the federal government in addressing the issue and...

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Do doctors really flee certain states, avoid high-risk specialties such as neurosurgery and obstetrics, or even forgo practicing medicine as a result of ever-growing liability concerns? Can liability reforms prevent an exodus? Empirical answers to these questions are...

Is the real problem with America’s medical liability system too much medical malpractice rather than too much litigation? Are recent rises in medical malpractice insurance premiums caused by economic cycles instead of increasing claims? Should the system be compensating more people? In his...

How has the national debate over medical-malpractice and medical liability reform been affected by a set of faulty studies?

The president, several governors, and most physicians are again calling for reform of the medical malpractice system. Proponents of reform claim that the periodic spikes in medical malpractice insurance premiums are threatening to drive physicians out of practice, and can only be reduced by limitations on malpractice awards and other...

Why did the PPACA not emphasize malpractice reform as a more important component of health care reform?