Marc Rodwin – Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:28:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Health Affairs letter on Marc Rodwin Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Study https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/01/health-affairs-letter-on-marc-rodwin-massachusetts-medical-malpractice-study/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:19:31 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=8086 You may remember Professor Rodwin and I debating his paper on Point of Law; that debate has spilled over onto the pages of the November/December issue of Health Affairs, which published a short letter from me criticizing the Rodwin study and a muddying response from the authors: Marc Rodwin and colleagues’ highly publicized conclusion that […]

Health Affairs letter on Marc Rodwin Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Study is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

]]> You may remember Professor Rodwin and I debating his paper on Point of Law; that debate has spilled over onto the pages of the November/December issue of Health Affairs, which published a short letter from me criticizing the Rodwin study and a muddying response from the authors:

Marc Rodwin and colleagues’ highly publicized conclusion that Massachusetts does not have a malpractice insurance crisis (May/Jun 08) is not supported by the data in their paper.

First, the sole finding supporting the conclusion, that malpractice insurance rates declined 1 percent from 1990 to 2005, is an artifact of the Simpson Paradox. Rates for low-risk doctors increased 14 percent; rates for high-risk doctors increased 45 percent. The mean decreased entirely because the mix of doctors changed, and the percentage of insured doctors with expensive high-risk policies declined substantially…

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Health Affairs letter on Marc Rodwin Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Study is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

]]> Marc Rodwin and the Massachusetts medical malpractice crisis https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/05/marc-rodwin-and-the-massachusetts-medical-malpractice-crisis/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/05/marc-rodwin-and-the-massachusetts-medical-malpractice-crisis/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 13:50:49 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7025 A Health Affairs paper by Suffolk University Law Professor Marc Rodwin et al. has been generating a lot of press and blog attention for its claim that there is no medical malpractice crisis in Massachusetts.  He and I have been debating the paper at Point of Law (Frank; Rodwin; Frank); as I show, that conclusion […]

Marc Rodwin and the Massachusetts medical malpractice crisis is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

]]> A Health Affairs paper by Suffolk University Law Professor Marc Rodwin et al. has been generating a lot of press and blog attention for its claim that there is no medical malpractice crisis in Massachusetts.  He and I have been debating the paper at Point of Law (Frank; Rodwin; Frank); as I show, that conclusion is highly suspect and seems divorced from the underlying data.

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Marc Rodwin and the Massachusetts medical malpractice crisis is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

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  • No imprisonment for debt, except when owed to a lawyer? Texas man who didn’t pay $1,750 attorney fee jailed for 30 days [ABA Journal; Jonathan Skero]
  • Exploding-bra claim against Victoria’s Secret “does not specify how the injury occurred” [Greenville, S.C. News]
  • We’re all set to close on your mortgage refinance, and while we’re at it could I interest you in a class action over courier fees? [Madison County Record]
  • So long we elect state court judges, they’ll never escape taint associated with need to campaign [J.D. Hull, What About Clients?]
  • Milberg now argues any forfeiture of proceeds from tainted cases should be confined to its actual net profits, not gross fee revenue — would it have let off defendants it sued so easily? [Gerstein, NY Sun]
  • Tom Goldstein of Akin Gump (SCOTUSblog) has a spoof “Call 1-CER-TIORARI” TV ad hawking his Supreme Court advocacy [YouTube]
  • New at Point of Law: Colorado unions’ revenge initiatives; Dennis Quaid at Congressional hearing on federal pre-emption; guess why Orlando isn’t getting commuter rail; drafting docs for ER duty; court green-lights suit blaming U.S. business for South African apartheid; what we can learn from defunct causes of action; Rhode Island high court mulls lead paint suit; and Ted on Massachusetts med-mal study and on reversal of $32 million Garza v. Merck Vioxx verdict.
  • Managers at Tim Horton may have been ninnies to fire worker who quieted crying child by giving out free mini-donut, but today’s law does tend to ninnyize those in authority [Cosh/National Post, Canada]
  • Jonathan Rauch isn’t overjoyed at California high court marriage ruling [Independent Gay Forum; more from Kmiec, Lederman and others at Slate and from Eugene Volokh] More: Steve Chapman via Sullivan and Dale Carpenter @ Volokh.
  • Road delayed at £1million expense, and then great crested newt turned out not to be there [Leicester, U.K.; Ananova]
  • Why trial lawyers were pleased when Boeing moved its HQ from Seattle to Chicago [seven years ago on Overlawyered]
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