nudge clinicians to use PDAs with their patients: the monetary incentive of a professional liability insurance premium … Empowering PatientsC. Too Few Clinicians Use PDAsIII. Medical Liability Insurers Should Incentivize Clinicians to Use PDAs by …-Reducing ConductB. Offering Premium Discounts Will Spur Wider PDA UptakeIV. PDAs Reduce Liability Risk from Negligent Nondisclosure …

politics have anything to with their choices? Physicians are not, shall we say, the world’s greatest fans of arbitration. It … turns out that regulatory policies and practices, in other words politics, provide one important reason why physicians …, physicians, do not regard arbitration as the answer to all of their prayers …

liability reform is not one of them. Despite being a perennial target of health care reform -- with accompanying assertions that … a medical malpractice liability crisis is corrupting the delivery of health care in the United States -- only three … unanticipated consequences for the ongoing medical malpractice liability reform debate …

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 …

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 …

physicians. Using hospital discharge records from the National Hospital Discharge Survey and clinically-validated quality metrics …We assess the potential for medical liability forces to deter medical errors and improve health care treatment quality …, identifying liability’s influence by drawing on variations in the manner by which states formulate the negligence standard facing …

“Medical futility,” the doctrine by which hospital ethics boards have assumed the right to authorize medical providers …

Procedural failures of physicians or teams in interventional healthcare may positively or negatively predict subsequent …