toolkit introduces medical liability as an intrinsic component of tort law, which itself must be understood as a part of … of medical liability, and the nature of the alleged “crisis,” the toolkit indicates how reform has been attempted at the … clause drafting. The toolkit also includes an up-to-date list of medical liability reforms in the fifty states, the only such …

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 …

laws. These laws make apologies from physicians to patients inadmissible in any subsequent court proceedings. The basic …

This paper examines how physicians in China respond to a pay-for-performance scheme that mismeasures performance. In … to decrease drug expenditure. Using a unique patient-level data from a large Chinese hospital, I find that physicians … inducement hypothesis as physicians in China may receive under-the-counter commission for prescribing certain drugs. I also find …

This paper studies how gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from drug firms to physicians in the US affect … prescriptions and payments with causal inference and machine learning methods. We find that payments cause physicians to prescribe … more brand drugs, resulting in a cost increase of $30 per dollar received. Responses differ widely across physicians, and …

We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which … private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe the expensive medication. The result holds after controlling for … our cases, we further find that the same physicians prescribe different medication when working in different sectors …

If medical malpractice reform affects the supply of physicians, the effects will be concentrated in specialties facing … high liability exposure. Many doctors are likely to be indifferent regarding reform, because their likelihood of being sued … Malpractice Reform Help States Retain Physicians and Does it Matter?" …

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 …

Physicians’ generic pharmaceutical adoption involves not only patients’ and insurance payers’ cost, but also their own … interests. This study examines this double agency problem for physicians by using Taiwanese data because two of its … institutional features: First, patients and physicians in a universal health care system did not self-select their insurance plans …