I was a guest on the Tampa program “Legal Forum” this afternoon, talking about Overlawyered and medical malpractice reform.
Overlawyered’s most recent posts on medical malpractice can be found here. You may also be interested in our more academically-inclined sister weblog, Point of Law, which also has a section about medicine and law, as well as two recent roundtables on the subject, including a debate between me and the head of Doctors for Kerry on the Bush malpractice proposal.
For more information on the Florida medical ballot initiatives, see our sister website Point Of Law, May 19, Jul. 20, Aug. 4, Nov. 2 first, second and third posts, Nov. 4, Nov. 5, and also Walter Olson’s WSJ piece of Oct. 29.
Host Matt Justine surprised me when he said that Florida medical malpractice payouts had been going down. It turns out not to be the case. According to a November 2002 report by Milliman USA, medical liability losses paid by Florida insurers increased 150% between 1991 and 2000.
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