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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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. […]
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