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The net effects of medical malpractice tort reform on health insurance losses: the Texas experience

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Born, Patricia H.
Karl, J. Bradley
Viscusi, W. Kip

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In this paper, we examine the influence of medical malpractice tort reform on the level of private health insurance company losses incurred. We employ a natural experiment framework centered on a series of tort reform measures enacted in Texas in 2003 that drastically altered the medical malpractice environment in the state. The results of a difference-in-differences analysis using a variety of comparison states, as well as a difference-in-difference-in-differences analysis, indicate that ameliorating medical malpractice risk has little effect on health insurance losses incurred by private health insurers.

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10.1186/s13561-017-0174-2

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