I just want to get an idea of whether plantiffs generally win malpractice suits or whether doctors win.
PooPooLaTrash
Plaintiffs win often enough that malpractice insurance rates for physicians are almost prohibitively expensive and why many practitioners in specialties that are most at risk of lawsuits (obstetrics, for instance) are either leaving their professions or switching specialties. It is also at least part of the reason why healthcare costs are steadily rising.
Physician advocacy groups say 60% of liability claims against doctors are dropped, withdrawn, or dismissed without payment. However even those cases have a price, costing an average of more than $ 22,000 to defend in 2008 ($ 18,000 in 2007). Physicians are found not negligent in over 90% of cases that go to trial - yet more than $ 110,000 (2008 estimate, $ 100,000 in 2007) per case is spent defending those claims. Source: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/-1/case-for-mlr.pdf
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I read that in 2001 27% of medical malpractice suits were won by plantiffs. Another interesting statistic is the estimate that between 50 and 65 percent of all doctors in the U.S. are sued at least once during their career.
For more information check: http://www.glinnandsomeralawfirm.com/
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