This paper proposes a solution to many of the basic problems with the current system of medical malpractice liability … insurance results of medical malpractice liability. By making first-party insurers plaintiffs and placing them on the same … footing as their defense-side counterparts, liability insurers, UIS should increase the rate at and effectiveness with which …

reform increases physician supply and access to care. However, the degree to which marginal changes in malpractice liability … inelastic, then tort reform will not affect physicians' net income or location decisions. I use county-level, specialty …-specific annual counts of physicians from 1970 to 2000 to estimate the effect of damage caps on physician supply. The results suggest …

availability and affordability of liability insurance largely determine the direction of medical malpractice policy. Scientific and … regulation of liability insurance. Comprehensive reforms that approach medical malpractice insurance as a health policy problem …

Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we …

caps on recoveries in both tried and settled cases. We also found that physicians faced little personal exposure on … malpractice claims. Out-of-pocket payments (OOPPs) by physicians were rare and usually small. Physicians could reduce their … amount of insurance coverage purchased by physicians with paid claims declined substantially over 1988–1999, consistent with …

plaintiffs in achieving civil justice. The debate has been especially heated when it comes to medical malpractice liability …. Until recently, rhetoric about the liability system and its relationship to insurance markets and physician supply dominated … provided a window into settlement outcomes, along with a variety of other features of the liability system and insurance …