Med-mal

medical malpractice

Law & medicine Negligent conduct or unreasonable lack of skill in the performance of a medical task, on the part of a physician or a party–eg, a health care facility in which that act or task occurs Statistics, US In a 5-yr period, 48% of surgeons and surgical specialists, 34% of obstetricians-anesthesiologists and 15% of other physicians had malpractice claims; 85% of all payments were made on behalf of 3% of policy holders. See Abandonment, Assault and battery, Blood shield laws, Borrowed servant doctrine, Causation, Compensatory damages, Confidentiality, Consent, Contributory neglect/negligence, Countersuit, Damages, Defensive medicine, 'Difficult Pt.', DNR, Emergency doctrine law, Emergency psychiatric committment, Emotional distress, Expert witness, Frivolous lawsuit, Liability, Good Samaritan laws, Informed consent, Jehovah's Witness, Medical record, Misdiagnosis, Negligence, Patient-physician relationship, Punitive damages, Quinlan case, Referral and consultation, Res ipsa loquitur, Respondeat superior, Standard of care, Statute of limitations, Therapeutic privilege doctrine, Tort, Wrongful birth.

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$1 million/$3 million coverage
ability to practice medicine
adverse action
affirmative defense
apparent agency
Assumption-of-Risk Doctrine
battery
Captain of the Ship Doctrine
Claims-Made Policy
Contributory Negligence
Coverage
deposition
emotional distress
insurance carrier
jackpot syndrome
malpractice
Malpractice Lottery
negligent referral
Occurrence Policy

Other highlights of recent months: Med-mal insurance study.

Presidential candidates at convention join call for strong civil ... by Trial

from the sector in 2001, med-mal firms not only raised rates and tightened underwriting standards, but also benefited from tort reforms enacted in several populous states, according to the A.

Medical malpractice sector is on the mend by Best's Review

Doctors in high-risk specialties like obstetrics threatened to leave the medical community if the med-mal rates kept climbing.

Med-mal premiums stabilize in 2006 by Friedman, Mark / Arkansas Business

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