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Medical malpractice among physicians: Who will be sued and who will pay?

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  • Derek Weycker
  • Gail Jensen

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This paper examines whether a physician's future claims of medical malpractice are predictable from information on the physician's recent claims history, training credentials, practice characteristics, and demographics. Data on the medical malpractice experience of 8,733 Michigan physicians between 1980 and 1989 is analyzed. We find strong evidence of repetition over time regarding who was sued and who paid claims. The worse a physician's malpractice litigation record during 1980–1984, the worse was his record during 1985–1989. Training credentials were also highly predictive of future malpractice experience. Physicians trained at lower ranked medical schools or who went through lower-ranked residency programs faced higher odds of developing adverse malpractice records, even after controlling for their previous litigation record. Growing internet access to information on these characteristics will help inform prospective patients if they wish to avoid physicians likely to be sued and likely to make payments in the future for malpractice. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000

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  • Derek Weycker & Gail Jensen, 2000. "Medical malpractice among physicians: Who will be sued and who will pay?," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 3(4), pages 269-277, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:hcarem:v:3:y:2000:i:4:p:269-277
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1019014028914
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    1. Jing Liu & David A. Hyman, 2019. "Targeting Bad Doctors: Lessons from Indiana, 1975–2015," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(2), pages 248-280, June.
    2. Black, Bernard & Hyman, David A. & Lerner, Joshua Y., 2019. "Physicians with multiple paid medical malpractice claims: Are they outliers or just unlucky?," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 146-157.

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