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 …

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 … the ledger, malpractice liability leads to modest reductions in patient mortality; the value of these more than likely …

facing physicians …

. The quantile regressions show the greatest effects of joint and several liability limits, noneconomic damages caps, and …

malpractice liability might also encourage physicians to practice 'defensive medicine.' We use rich new data to examine the … malpractice liability drive physicians to close their practices or not move to areas with high payments? Third, do increases in …The growth of medical malpractice liability costs has the potential to affect the delivery of health care in the U …

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 …

quality of medical care is an extremely important determinant of deferdants' medical malpractice liability. More generally, we …

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 …