The 2015 Medical Malpractice Payout Analysis has been released and is available here.
As a service to our clients and all physicians nation-wide, Diederich Healthcare has done an analysis of the medical malpractice payouts in 2013 as recorded by the National Practitioner Data Bank. Taking the data from the NPDB’s records, statistics were selected that will be both interesting and timely to doctors and all other medical professionals. Interestingly, 2013 marked the first time since 2003 that there was an increase in the total medical malpractice payout amounts. Should you have any question or would like any more information regarding the data, please contact us at 800-457-7790.
This year is the third that we have been providing this service. Please see below for the previous medical malpractice payout analyses released:
[…] As usual, most of the payout are a result of settlements (96%) instead of judgments. Interestingly, the percentage of judgment payouts decreased by 2% in 2013. For more information, and a wonderful infographic that summarizes their findings can be found by following our link to their website here. […]
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[…] To view the entire infographic, click here. […]