Insuring Medical Malpractice

Zusatztext The book should be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the key features of the insurance industry in the United States....It should be useful to those interested in insurance and those concerned with an important aspect of medical economics. Klappentext The cost of malpractice insurance to physicians has been increasing in recent years! as has the threat to physicians of being sued. This book describes and analyzes the workings of the market for physicians' liability insurance. The authors use their own data and other sources to study questions such as: Is the market for medical malpractice insurance competitive? Has the profitability of medical malpractice insurance been excessive? Why do malpractice insurers demand reinsurance? What effect has insurance regulation had on premiums? And it explores what experience rating is and how it is done. Zusammenfassung This book addresses a topic of great concern in the fields of medicine and medical economics. The cost of malpractice insurance to physicians has been increasing rapidly in recent years, and in some areas is not even available. The book describes and analyses, in a non-technical way, the workings of physicians' own liability insurance.

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• Authors: Randall A. Bovbjerg, Randall A. (Research Associate Bovbjerg, Randall R. Bovbjerg, Penny B. Githens, Penny B. (Research Associate Githens, Githens Penny B., Frank A. Sloan, Frank A. (Professor of Economics Sloan, Frank A. Bovbjerg Sloan, Sloan Frank A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.1991
• EAN: 9780195069594
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506959-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, General practice, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, LAW / Malpractice, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / Liability, United States of America, USA, General Practice / Family Medicine, Insurance & actuarial studies, Insurance and actuarial studies