Medical Professional Liability Insurance

Medical Professional Liability Insurance
Author:
Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1998
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Timely and authoritative, Medical Professional Liability Insurance is the most comprehensive source for unbiased information about one of the most critical aspects of medical practice. Concise and easy-to-understand, it can give physicians and other decision makers the confidence they need to make informed decisions about professional liability insurance to maximize protection for themselves and their practices.

Medical Malpractice

Medical Malpractice
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1986
Genre: Malpractice insurance
ISBN:

Insuring Medical Malpractice

Insuring Medical Malpractice
Author: Frank A. Sloan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1991
Genre: Insurance, Physicians' liability
ISBN: 0195069595

The cost of malpractice insurance to physicians has been increasing in recent years, as has the threat to physicians of being sued. This book describes and analyzes the workings of the market for physicians' liability insurance. The authors use their own data and other sources to study questions such as: Is the market for medical malpractice insurance competitive? Has the profitability of medical malpractice insurance been excessive? Why do malpractice insurers demand reinsurance? What effect has insurance regulation had on premiums? And it explores what experience rating is and how it is done.

Medical Professional Liability and the Delivery of Obstetrical Care

Medical Professional Liability and the Delivery of Obstetrical Care
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1989-02-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309039827

This is the first part of an in-depth study focusing on medical liability and its effect on access to and delivery of obstetrical care. The book addresses such questions as: Do liability concerns impede the use of new technologies? Have liability issues affected the physician-patient relationship? Are community health and maternity centers being harmed? What specific remedies are being considered and what are their prospects for success?

Advances in Patient Safety

Advances in Patient Safety
Author: Kerm Henriksen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.

Money, Medicine, and Malpractice in American Society

Money, Medicine, and Malpractice in American Society
Author: Iain Hay
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1992-04-30
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

In conjunction with changing economic circumstances surrounding health care in the United States since 1945, malpractice insurance has contributed to changing patterns of control in medicine. Today, inflationary pressures associated with medical malpractice are clashing with endeavors to contain costs in health care. Hay provides a thorough investigation of the development of medical liability insurance in the United States--and its implications for tort law reform and health care provision. The book transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries to provide a straightforward account of circumstances giving rise to particular forms of legal, medical, and social regulation in the United States.