Both sides of Wisconsin's medical malpractice battle - doctors and hospital officials versus trial lawyers and patient advocates - present malpractice caps as black and white. Not having a cap makes ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A new study puts Louisiana in first place nationwide for the highest rate of medical malpractice. The study used National Practitioner Databank adverse action reports to ...

Proposed Florida legislation (HB 6017/SB 734) would repeal current restrictions on malpractice claims for adult children and parents of adult children. This legislation could worsen Florida's ...

Nuclear verdicts in medical malpractice cases have increased, with averages reaching $56 million in 2024, says the AMA.

Medical malpractice activity can be an indication of health care quality. Medical malpractice payouts vary widely from state to state, and are nearly 10 times as high in the worst state than in the ...

Lawmakers met in private Tuesday to try and work out a deal to get doctors rallying against the rising cost of medical malpractice insurance back to work. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

Medical errors are a serious threat to health systems worldwide. One recent study estimated that 400,000 hospitalized patients experience some sort of preventable harm in the United States each year, ...

High costs for medical malpractice insurance are driving physicians to order more tests and do more documentation of health care, and have driven some from practicing certain specialties altogether.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Dr. Ronald Guy of Broken Arrow was one of several physicians appearing before state Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher on Tuesday to protest an 82.8 percent medical malpractice ...

A national study found that between 2019-2024, New Mexico lost 8.1% of our doctor workforce (248), while the number of doctors nationally increased by 7.3% (44,272). New Mexico also has the oldest ...

Data show that New Mexico was losing OB-GYNs before the insurance spike in recent years. Between 2017 and 2021—before the ...

A bill intended to counter the shortage of health care providers in New Mexico by making cha… In the final weeks of this year’s legislative session, lawmakers confronted with a chronic shortage of ...