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A Self-Inflicted "Crisis:" New York's Medical Malpractice Insurance Troubles Caused by Flawed State Rating Setting and Raid on Rainy Day Fund

Shortsighted policy decisions by New York’s government in the 1990s are responsible for the purported medical malpractice “crisis” in the state, according to this report released by Public Citizen, New York Public Interest Research Group and the Center for Medical Consumers. Gov. Eliot Spitzer and a task force studying malpractice are urged to focus on ways to improve patient safety and to resist pleas from the insurance industry and the state’s doctors to pare back patients’ legal rights.

• Download the report [PDF]
• Read the press release
• Read the statement of Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen President
• Read the statement of Erin Howard, sister of firefighter Kevin Deane, a victim of fatal malpractice
• Read our letter to Eliot Spitzer, Governor of New York
• Learn more on the Watchdog Blog  

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