New research into medical malpractice claims paid in 2006 has revealed that Florida’s average payout for such claims was lower than the national average. The study has sparked renewed debate about the tort reform that is currently underway to change malpractice laws in Florida. Research conducted by the Kaiser Family…
Philip Peters Jr., of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law has been conducting research into medical malpractice cases and his findings suggest that juries in medical malpractice cases tend to side with physicians rather than injured patients. The law professor studied malpractice cases in New Jersey and databases of…
According to the Institute of Medicine’s Healthcare Quality Initiative, medical errors cause 4,000 to 98,000 unnecessary deaths and 1,000,000 excess injuries annually in this country. Common errors include misdiagnosis, providing the wrong medication, unintended medicine interaction, and wrong site surgery. Other errors, such as failure to provide the correct type…
In 2003 and 2004, the state of Florida implemented a number of reforms that capped the amounts that attorneys can gather from medical malpractice rates. The move was ostensibly meant to reduce the number of lawsuits filed and to ease the stress on malpractice insurers. The move has left many…