The United States has experienced three medical malpractice (med mal) crises in the past 40 years. In response, 31 states now have caps on noneconomic or total damages. Researchers have studied the impact of these caps, relative to control states without caps, but have not studied trends in no-cap states or overall national trends. We find that the per-physician rate of paid med mal claims has been dropping for 20 years and in 2012 was less than half the 1992 level. Lawsuit rates, in the states with...
A New York lawyer says he feels vindicated after winning $130 million for a medical malpractice client in a third trial of the case.
Lawyer Thomas Moore had turned down an $8 million settlement before the first trial in 2009 and then lost the case, the New York Post reports. An appeals court ordered a retrial, which ended last year in a hung jury. Moore won $130 million this week in a Suffolk County trial.
The suit had claimed St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson erred during the birth...
