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| Suffolk Law Study study shows Most Mass. doctors face lower cost for malpractice coverage |
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| The Boston Globe Despite assertions that high malpractice rates are driving them out of the state, Massachusetts doctors are paying less than they were in 1990, after adjusting for inflation, according to a Suffolk University Law School study. <p> Massachusetts ranks fourth in the nation for money paid to settle malpractice cases and is one of 21 states described by the American Medical Association as being in a crisis because of high medical malpractice payments and lack of strict laws capping settlements. <p> Such high payments would seem to predict high premiums, but the Suffolk study, appearing in the current issue of <i>Health Affairs,</i> found that most Massachusetts physicians paid an average of $17,810 in premiums in 2005, a little lower than the $17,907 that the same coverage would have cost in 1990, after adjusting for inflation. |
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