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Medical Malpractice Payments Fall, While Health Care Cost Rise

By Mary R. Kennedy

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A new report out by Public Citizen shows that medical malpractice payments were at or near record lows in 2008, but the decline almost certainly indicates that a lower percentage of injured patients received compensation, not that health safety has improved.It finds that:"The cost of the medical malpractice liability system ? if measured broadly by adding all malpractice insurance premiums ? fell

Full post as published by Medical Malpractice Law News on July 17, 2009 (boomark / email).

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