Because fee-for-service health insurance insulates providers from the costs of treatment
decisions, it may lead to “defensive medicine” — precautionary treatment with minimal expected …

In healthcare, overuse and underuse of medical treatments represent equally dangerous
deviations from an optimal use equilibrium and arouse concerns about possible implications …

The US medical malpractice liability system has two principal objectives: to compensate
patients who are injured through the negligence of healthcare providers and to deter providers …

Medical malpractice reform has been the focus of significant attention from policy makers in
the United States for decades. Hundreds of reforms to medical malpractice, including caps …

The purpose of this chapter is to assess the theoretical and empirical evidence regarding
the efficacy of medical malpractice liability and limitations to it in achieving better healthcare …

Previous research suggests that “direct” reforms to the liability system—reforms designed to
reduce the level of compensation to potential claimants—reduce medical expenditures …

New rules and methods for medical injury dispute resolution have been launched in New
Hampshire and New York, and demonstration projects are underway elsewhere. This article …

The general consensus is that reform of medical malpractice law should be part of the health
care system's overhaul. Medical malpractice litigation results in the expenditure of tens of …

Malpractice reforms tend to reduce physicians' liability for harming patients. Because these
reforms are passed at the state level, the costs of harming patients vary widely by geographic …

We extend the theoretical literature on the impact of malpractice liability by allowing for two
treatment technologies, a safe and a risky one. The safe technology bears no failure risk, but …