Historical Materials:
• Medical Malpractice Payment Trends 1991-2004;
Evidence Shows Lawsuits Haven't Caused Doctors' Insurance Woes
• Medical Malpractice Briefing Book Medical Misdiagnosis:
Challenging the Malpractice Claims of the Doctors' Lobby
• The Costs of Medical Malpractice to Patients and Consumers Versus the Cost to Doctors -- A state by state analysis
• Bush's Medical Malpractice Disinformation Campaign:
A Rebuttal to the HHS Report on Medical Liability
• Public Citizen Critique of the Bush proposal:
"The Bush Administration's Malpractice Misdiagnosis"
• KEY CONTACTS:
Consumer, Legal and Insurance Experts Available to Discuss Malpractice Crisis
• Organized Medicine Has Opposed Key Institute of Medicine (IOM)
Recommendations on Patient Safety Statement
By Arthur A. Levin, MPH Director of the Center for Medical Consumers
• Quick Facts on Medical Malpractice Issues
• Investigative Reports, Independent Researchers Agree:
Caps Won’t Solve Medical Malpractice "Crisis"
Medical Malpractice Damage Caps and Payout Trends:
• Medical Protectives Insurance Co. Memo to Texas Insurance Commissioner [PDF] October 28, 2004
• New 2002 Government Data Dispute Medical Malpractice Lawsuit "Crisis"
July 7, 2003
• Medical Malpractice Award Trends:
Believe Government Sources, Not Doctors
• What’s a $250,000 Cap on Medical Malpractice Damages Worth:
Compensation for a Lifetime of Pain or a CEO’s Annual Bonus
Dangerous Doctors and State Medical Boards:
• Public Citizen Ranks Performance of State Medical Boards in 2003 -- Public Citizen's Health Research Group. April 14, 2004
• Government Must Tell Medicare Patients Results of Investigations Into Complaints That Doctors Erred, Appeals Court Says -- HHS Policy of Withholding Information Violates Law, Court Concurs with Public Citizen
• Ranking of State Medical Board Serious Disciplinary Actions in 2002
Public Citizen's Health Research Group -- Publication #1658
Insurance Cycle and Industry:
Public Citizen's Congress Watch Reports and Fact Sheets
… Insurance Companies and Their Lobbyists Admit It: Caps on Damages Won’t Lower Insurance Premiums February 2003
… Equal Opportunity Rate Hikes Rising State Insurance Premiums Not Unique to Medical Malpractice July 2002
Americans for Insurance Reform
…Think Malpractice is Driving up Health Costs? Think Again. January 2004
… Industry Insiders Admit - And History Shows: Tort Reform Will Not Lower Insurance Rates June 2003
… New Study Shows Average Medical Malpractice Payout Over Last Decade Only $28,524; New Data Reveals Same Trends In 2001
… Medical Malpractice Insurance: Stable Losses/Unstable Rates. Prepared by J. Robert Hunter, Director of Insurance for the Consumer Federation of America October 10, 2002
American Medical Association
… In Their Own Words ... The American Medical Association on Medical Malpractice Compiled by Public Citizen
Analysis by the Missouri Department of Insurance
… Medical Malpractice Insurance in Missouri: The Current Difficulties in Perspective"
Analysis by the West Virginia Insurance Commission
… Medical Malpractice Report on Insurers with over 5% Market Share. Novemeber 2002
Center for Justice & Democracy--
… MYTHBUSTER: The Liability Insurance Crisis — DÉJÀ VU All Over Again
… 10 Things You Should Know About … MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
… A Short Guide to Understanding Today's Medical Malpractice Insurance "Crisis" (and useful questions to ask...)
Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
… California's #2 Medical Malpractice Insurer Should Lower Doctors' Rates, Insurance Commissioner Should Reject Price Hike Proposal
… Five Dangerous Myths About California's Medical Malpractice Restrictions
… How Insurance Reform Lowered Dcotors' Medical Malpractice Rates in California... And How Malpractice Caps Failed
… Insurance Regulation, Not Malpractice Caps Stabilize Doctors Premiums
United States General Accounting Office (GAO)
… MEDICAL MALPRACTICE -- Implications of Rising Premiums on Access to Health Care August 2003
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