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Why Juries Turn Against Doctors
Million-dollar medical malpractice verdicts have doubled since 1996. They now make up 8% of all malpractice claims actually paid. This, at the same time that verdicts for the defense remain the norm and the number of lawsuit filings has actually fallen somewhat. Why? The quick – and partially correct – answer is that the cost of health care has skyrocketed. If a 3-year-old must breathe on a respirator for the rest of her life, which is expected to last at least 25 years, she will need a bigger award to cover the cost of that care.
But the truly big verdicts are due to something else. It's called a paradigm shift. Changes in the law, the tools available to plaintiffs' lawyers and the attitudes of potential jurors have altered the playing field for doctors being sued. And they don't seem to have caught on. Instead of changing how they approach litigation, doctors want to cap malpractice awards. But their effort is a mere bandage for a serious wound. It will not cure the medical malpractice “crisis.” Big verdicts will keep getting bigger until doctors face what is really going wrong in court.
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