the ledger, malpractice liability leads to modest reductions in patient mortality; the value of these more than likely …Policymakers and the public are concerned about the role of medical malpractice liability in the rising cost of medical … care. We use variation in the generosity of local juries to identify the causal impact of malpractice liability on medical …

physicians under medical liability rules. We theorize that physicians of particular backgrounds will be attracted to regions when … Resource File from 1977 to 2005, we find that the rate of surgeons among practicing physicians increases by 2-2.4 log points … effectively expects physicians to increase practice intensities. We find that this response is nearly three times greater in rural …

Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians' behavior and medical costs. This … limit the liability exposure of healthcare providers are associated with a significant reduction in medical device patenting …

cost of malpractice liability. Specifically, we test whether physicians exploit provisions of bankruptcy laws and adjust … larger in areas with higher liability risk, where physicians would have greater incentive to insure against financial risks … (self-protection) or size (self-insurance) of a loss. However, in the case of liability risk, especially physician responses …

nature of the present system of liability rules, which largely hold physicians to standards determined according to industry … evidence has been put forth to date bearing on the relationship between medical liability forces on the one hand and medical …--e.g., damage caps--we estimate that the current liability system plays at most a modest role in inducing higher levels of health …

are investigated. Physicians report having made substantial changes to their practice in response to the general … environment and to liability pressures. Regression analysis finds that liability pressure increases reports of income and practice … reductions, but direct effects on actual income and productivity are less clear. Liability pressures may lead to a specialization …

Spatial inequalities in access to physicians is a long-standing problem in the US, and it may be an important … to sorting among physicians across states along characteristics such as physician quality. In this study, we test whether … state-level malpractice laws affect new physicians' location decisions and sorting of physicians by quality measures across …

System survey, we present four findings. First, physicians from states enacting liability reforms that directly reduce … physicians' attitudes, both by reducing the probability of an encounter with the liability system and by changing the nature of …Understanding how and why liability laws and liability reforms alter the medical treatment decision-making process is …

`Defensive medicine' is a potentially serious social problem: if fear of liability drives health care providers to … administer treatments that do not have worthwhile medical benefits, then the current liability system may generate inefficiencies … question, we analyze the effects of malpractice liability reforms using data on all elderly Medicare beneficiaries treated for …