The malpractice crisis sweeping the country is becoming a greater focus of debate and media attention. ProAssurance and its subsidiaries support a reasoned factual debate on this important subject. The following fact sheets are designed to help you understand the issues and refute the one-side arguments put forth by those opposed to a fair-minded application of laws governing medical liability. 

Position Papers | Studies | Organizations

• Access to Courts
• Americans Favor Reform
• Damage Cap Success
• Economic Damages
• Healthcare Access
• In the News
• Litigation Explosion
• McCarran-Ferguson Repeal
• Medical Liability Crisis
• Medical Liability Myths
• Medical Liability Reform
• MICRA vs. PROP 103
• Problem Cause Solution
• Reform Terminology

• Jackpot Justice: The True Cost of America's Tort System (3/07)
• Medical Liability Claims in Seven States, 2000-2004 (3/07)
• NEJM Medical Liability Study (5/06)
• Manhattan Inst Report on Liability Costs (5/06)
• Kessler Report on Medical Liability Premiums (4/06)
• American Enterprise Institute On Faulty Medical Liability Loss Studies (4/06)
• Heritage Foundation Study on the Need for Medical Liability Reform (1/06)
• Report Analyzing Profitability in Medical Liability Insurance (10/05)
• Independent Actuaries' Report on Flawed Medical Liability Studies (10/05)
• Kaiser Foundation Report on Medical Liability (5/05)
• Actuarial Organization Issues Analysis Guidelines (4/05)
• 2004 Studies
• 2003 Studies
• 2002 Studies

Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Healthcare

Doctors for Medical Liability Reform