FACT SHEETS

  • Costs Of The Current Medical Malpractice System Are Much Lower Than People Think (Printable PDF)

  • The Defensive Medicine Myth (Printable PDF)

  • Health Courts Are Unconstitutional (Printable PDF)

  • Health Courts And Other Alternative Systems Are Intolerably Unfair To Injured Patients (Printable PDF)

  • Medical Malpractice Litigation: The Significant Costs Of Alternative Systems (Printable PDF)

  • The Problem With Medical Malpractice Is The Amount Of Malpractice Itself (Printable PDF)

  • Far From Being “Broken,” The Current Medical Malpractice System Works Well (Printable PDF)

  • Litigation Improves Patient Safety And Establishes Responsibility For Errors (Printable PDF)

  • Fear Of Litigation Is Not Why Doctors Fail To Report Errors Or Communicate With Their Patients (Printable PDF)

  • Juries V. Cost Savings – An Unacceptable Trade-Off (Printable PDF)

  • Eliminating Juries Means Few Cases Will Settle (Printable PDF)

  • Lowering Insurance Costs For Doctors Requires Insurance Industry Reform (Printable PDF)

  • A Critical Patient Safety Solution: Remove Or Sanction The Small Number Of Bad Doctors Committing Most Malpractice (Printable PDF)

  • The Milliman Report: Fatally Flawed (Printable PDF)




    • STUDIES
  • ANALYSIS OF MILLIMAN’S 2004 REPORT, “EFFECTS OF A CAP ON NON-ECONOMIC DAMAGES ON NEW YORK PHYSICIAN AND HOSPITAL MALPRACTICE RATES” PDF (November 2011)

  • MEDICAL LIABILITY AND MALPRACTICE INSURANCE IN NEW YORK STATE PDF (2011)

  • BIGGEST BANG FOR THE BUCK: Washington’s State-Run Workers Compensation System (PDF)(2010)

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  • National Consumer Group Slams Insurer "Tort Cost" Report (PDF) (2010)

  • True Risk: Medical Liability, Malpractice Insurance and Health Care (PDF) (2009)

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  • Stable Loses/Unstable Rates - National Report (PDF) (2007)

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  • AIR Co-releases CFA Report: Dramatic Increase in Insurance Industry Profits (PDF) (2007)

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  • At The Tipping Point: The Homeowner Insurance Mess In Florida And How To Fix It (PDF) (2006)

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  • The Insurance Industry’s Troubling Response To Hurricane Katrina (2006)

  • The Legal Case for Payment of Katrina Victims' Insurance Claims (2005)

  • Measured Costs (2005)

  • Limiting Liability Will Not Fix Insurance Problems (Updated April 2004)
  • Insurance Industry Admits: Insurance Business Practices and Investment Cycle to Blame for Insurance Liability “Crisis” (PDF) (2003)

  • Response to American Insurance Association Attack on Premium Deceit (PDF) (2002)

  • American Insurance Association and American Tort Reform Association Say: Don't Expect "Tort Reform" to Cut Insurance Prices (PDF)  (2002)

  • Premium Deceit: The Failure of "Tort Reform" to Cut Insurance Prices (PDF) (1999)
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