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May 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 am

Marc Rodwin and the Massachusetts medical malpractice crisis

A Health Affairs paper by Suffolk University Law Professor Marc Rodwin et al. has been generating a lot of press and blog attention for its claim that there is no medical malpractice crisis in Massachusetts. He and I have been debating the paper at Point of Law (Frank; Rodwin; Frank); as I show, that conclusion is highly suspect and seems divorced from the underlying data.

In divorce; Marc Rodwin; Massachusetts; medical; medical malpractice insurance

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