Sydney Smith, writing for TechCentralStation.com, throws more doubt on that odd Weiss Ratings study of a couple of weeks ago which so impressed Time (see “Juggling the Stats”, Jun. 4-5) and U.S. News, and which purported to find no connection between curbs on medical liability payouts and trends in malpractice insurance costs (”Bad Medicine”, Jun. 26). See Christopher H. Schmitt, “A medical mistake”, U.S. News, Jun. 30; Charles E. Boyle, “Weiss Ratings Drops a Bomb on the Med-Mal Debate”, Insurance Journal, Jun. 20.
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The Times on med-mal, II: effect of caps
On Tuesday, readers will recall, the New York Times business section ran an article entitled “Behind Those Medical Malpractice Rates” under the byline of Joseph B. Treaster and Joel Brinkley. Yesterday I criticized at length the article’s assertions th…
The Times on med-mal, II: effect of caps
On Tuesday, readers will recall, the New York Times business section ran an article entitled “Behind Those Medical Malpractice Rates” under the byline of Joseph B. Treaster and Joel Brinkley. Yesterday I criticized at length the article’s assertion tha…
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