Healthcare Liability/Damages

Research & Studies

• Health Hazard: Litigation Increases Medical Costs, but Lawyers Block Reform
  The Manhattan Institute's Trial Lawyers Inc.  |  October 13, 2009
  
  
• National Voter Survey: Health Care Reform and the Legal System
  Common Good and the Committee for Economic Development  |  September 10, 2009
  
  
• Lawyers' Creatives -- Medical Malpractice Findings
  Institute for Legal Reform  |  September 8, 2009
  
  

  Both the spending and frequency of lawyers mass tort solicitation creatives focusing on medical malpractice claims have increased massively since 2004. From 2004-2008 the spot count of these advertisements has increased over 1400% while the spending on these types of ads shot up over 1500% percent.

   

   

• Medical Malpractice Awards, Insurance, and Negligence: Which Are Related?
  Manhattan Institute Center for Legal Policy  |  May 1, 2006
  
  
• Code Blue: The Case for Serious State Medical Liability Reform
  The Heritage Foundation  |  January 17, 2006
  
  
• Trial Lawyers Inc: Health Care
  Manhattan Institute Center for Legal Policy  |  March 18, 2005
  
  
• Capping Non-Economic Awards in Medical Malpractice Trials: California Jury Verdicts Under MICRA
  RAND Institute for Civil Justice  |  July 12, 2004
  
  
• Changing the Medical Malpractice Dispute Process: What Have We Learned From California's MICRA?
  RAND Institute for Civil Justice  |  July 8, 2004
  
  
• Arbitration: An Alternative to Lawsuits
  The Heartland Institute  |  May 1, 2004
  
  
• Mold: An Evolving Issue for Insurance Policyholders
  American Insurance Association  |  November 1, 2003
  
  
• Medical Liability Reform Fact Sheet
  American Insurance Association  |  October 25, 2003
  
  
• Medical Malpractice Liability Crisis Meets Markets: Stress in Unexpected Places
  Center for Studying Health System Change  |  September 8, 2003
  
  
• Survey: Medical Malpractice in West Virginia
  Institute for Legal Reform  |  January 13, 2003
  
  
• Medical Liability Reform: A Physician's Perspective
  The Heartland Institute  |  January 1, 2003
  
  
• Table: Medical Malpractice Payments for Individual Physicians (2000)
  The Heartland Institute  |  January 1, 2002