From THE MORNING CALL:
The number of medical malpractice cases against Pennsylvania doctors and hospitals dropped in 2010 to the lowest point since the state’s high court enacted new rules designed to prevent frivolous lawsuits.
Statewide, the number of malpractice cases decreased by 45.4 percent from the average before the new rules took effect in 2002. Juries also returned verdicts in favor of defendant health care providers in more than 80 percent of cases statewide, up from an average of about 73 percent, according to data released Wednesday by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.
Heath care industry advocates who supported the changes, which corresponded to legal, insurance and patient safety reform legislation, said the data vindicates their claims that too many dubious claims against doctors were making it to court…
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