Study Shows: Claims that Malpractice System is Burdened by Frivolous Litigation are… Frivolous

Study Shows: Claims that Malpractice System is Burdened by Frivolous Litigation are… Frivolous

• June 6, 2011
• By Gerard Devita
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The facts gleaned right from the records of the very insurance industry that wants to curtail the rights of our injured citizens.  This study from the New England Journal of Medicine found that “the number of claims without merit that resulted in compensation was fairly small…”

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa054479#t=abstract

Why then do special interest groups push “reform” that harms the injured among us even further, rather than address methods of reducing mistakes and injuries that cause problems in the first place?