One reason often cited for skyrocketing medical costs is the proliferation of malpractice claims. Physicians prescribe too many tests to avoid missing a diagnosis and inviting a lawsuit. Meanwhile, insurers charge high premiums to cover doctors in case they find themselves on the receiving end of a lawsuit. On the flip side, a tremendous amount of research goes into who is suing whom and why.
The results of this research and application to property adjusting may be surprising to many in the P&C realm, however.
In the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), “Physician-Patient Communication: The Relationship with Malpractice Claims Among Primary Care Physicians and Surgeons,” Researcher Wendy Levinson reviews the legal records of hundreds of physicians, classifying them into two groups: those who had been sued and those who had not.
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