Last week the Manhattan Institute (with which I’m associated) released Trial Lawyers Inc. — Health Care, the third in its series of “annual reports” on the doings of the litigation industry. (The first two were a general nationwide report under the title of “Trial Lawyers Inc.“, and a report on trial lawyers’ doings in California). While I can’t take credit for the new report — Jim Copland, who heads the Institute’s Center for Legal Policy, is the one to thank — I can report that the new publication is chock full of valuable facts and statistics about the health care litigation scene, and is must reading for anyone who wants to follow the subject. Subdivision/chapters include:

Drugs and Medical Devices
Special Focus: Vaccines
Medical Malpractice
Special Focus: Hospitals
Health Maintenance Organizations
Government Relations/Public Relations

For our posts on these issues, see our “Bad Medicine” pages, first and second series, and (for pharmaceutical matters) our products liability page. The new TLI report, again, begins here in HMTL form, and can be downloaded in PDF form here.

Filed under: hospitals, Manhattan Institute, medical, vaccines