Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System

Part I. Framing Medical Malpractice as a Health Policy Issue: 1. The medical malpractice system: structure and performance Michelle M. Mello and David M. Studdert; 2. Malpractice reform as a health policy problem William M. Sage; 3. Medical malpractice and the new politics of health care Rogan Kersh; Part II. The Health Policy Impact of Medical Malpractice: 4. Who pays when malpractice premiums rise? Mark V. Pauly; 5. The effects of the US malpractice system on the cost and quality of care David J. Becker and Daniel P. Kessler; 6. Liability, patient safety, and defensive medicine: what does the future hold? Troyen A. Brennan, Michelle M. Mello and David M. Studdert; 7. Medical liability and the culture of technology Peter D. Jacobson; Part III. Malpractice Reforms that Solve the Right Problems: 8. Promoting fairness in the medical malpractice system Maxwell J. Mehlman; 9. Caps and the construction of damages in medical malpractice cases Catherine M. Sharkey; 10. Expertise and the legal process Catherine T. Struve; 11. Disclosure and fair resolution of adverse events Carol B. Liebman and Chris Stern Hyman; Part IV. In Search of a 'New Paradigm': 12. Enterprise liability in the 21st century Randall R. Bovbjerg and Robert Berenson; 13. Private contractual alternatives to malpractice liability Jennifer Arlen; 14. Medical malpractice insurance reform: 'enterprise insurance' and some alternatives Tom Baker; 15. Governments as insurers in professional and hospital liability insurance markets Frank A. Sloan and Charles E. Eesley; 16. Medicare-led malpractice reform Eleanor Kinney and William Sage.