The Repeal of Noneconomic Damage Caps and Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums.

ABSTRACT: Noneconomic damage caps are controversial because they seek to balance uncertain benefits through reductions in physician precautionary costs, against uncertain harms to patient welfare. Opposing policy actions at the state-level reflect this controversy as some states have enacted noneconomic damage caps over the past few decades while others repealed their caps. Our difference-in-differences analyses suggest that repeals increase premiums. These increases are larger after State Supreme Court decisions, affecting all cases in a state, compared with State Circuit Court decisions affecting only specific cases. Magnitudes differ by physician specialty, with larger effects observed in obstetrics/gynecology and general surgery, compared with internal medicine. Our estimates of these repeals ar

SUBMITTER: Mizushima Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12444756 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature