Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Three Studies on Malpractice Insurance Rates

Yesterday's column by Dan Margolies, legal affairs reporter for the Kansas City Star, provides links, in one handy location, to three studies that are being widely cited in the current debate on medical malpractice insurance rates:

posted by pn at 11:39 AM  

2 Comments:

Ted writes ...

Problems with the Texas study may or may not explain why it contradicts the other two.

6:31 PM  
pn writes ...

Of course, as Margolies notes, a legitimate part of the debate is how far they really contradict each other.

6:45 PM  

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