Researchers detail what happened in Illinois and Georgia after their state courts knocked down limits on noneconomic damages in med-mal cases.

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 ...

Judging by 3 representative specialties, physicians in 2013 are once again experiencing relief on malpractice insurance premiums. Collective rates for obstetrician-gynecologists, internists, and ...

Malpractice insurers are looking glum. Right now, competition is driving down medical malpractice insurance rates. Their business is cyclical. While it has been doing well for the past few years, with ...

In all sectors – from eggs on the grocery store shelves, car repair costs, mortgage rates and what it costs to see your doctor – Americans everywhere are experiencing higher prices on goods and ...

Medical malpractice insurance is essential for you as a healthcare professional, but you may wonder why it is so costly, especially in Florida. More patients are making claims, and the value of ...

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.

Long before the legislative session started, a full-page ad accosted readers with this headline: “Medical corporations & insurance companies blame patients harmed by medical malpractice for the ...

DES MOINES -- A group of state lawmakers met Wednesday hoping to find solutions to rising costs for medical malpractice insurance that are driving some doctors in specialties such as obstetrics out of ...

Doctors have complained for years about the malpractice insurance rates in New York State. Rates have grown so high, some doctors have migrated away from their private practices into medical groups, ...

Connecticut’s 29 acute-care hospitals experienced a 16 percent decrease in medical malpractice insurance costs from 2009 to 2012, but according to hospital officials within the state, the reduction in ...

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 ...