Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Andrew I. Friedson, Syracuse University
Thomas J. Kniesner, Syracuse University and IZAFollow

Description/Abstract

Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort reform are small for infants in an asset value sense and that the prime-aged working population is the group most negatively affected by tort reform. Maximum entropy quantile regressions highlight the robustness of our conclusions and reveal that the settlement losses most informative for policy evaluation differ greatly from mean regression estimates.

Document Type

Working Paper

Date

8-2011

Keywords

Malpractice, Tort Reform, Texas Closed Claims, Damage Caps, Quantile Regression, Maximum Entropy

Series

Working Papers Series

Disciplines

Economics

Additional Information

Working paper no. 132

Recommended Citation

Friedson, Andrew I. and Kniesner, Thomas J., "Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms" (2011). Center for Policy Research. 159.
https://surface.syr.edu/cpr/159

Source

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