Medical malpractice continues to be a contentious health policy issue particularly from the perspective of physicians … recently, hospitals and physicians have increasingly chosen to self-insure through a variety of vehicles including captive … National Practitioner Data Bank under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 poses challenges for physicians in …

Today the key to the unworkability of tort liability as applied to personal injury is the complexity of the insured … event. Tort liability insurance calls for payment of economic and noneconomic (i.e., mostly pain and suffering) damages in … malpractice litigation. Consequently, the liability insurance system is fraught for both sides with uncertainty that causes long …