Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in National Underwriter, P&C.
Reversing a downward trend, the frequency of medical malpractice claims against hospitals is rising, an insurance brokerage and risk management group has found.
The information that claims are expected to continue increasing at a 1 percent annual rate, after a decade of decrease, was contained in a report released last week by Aon Corporation and the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM).
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