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4 Tips to Help Lower Medical Liability Risk

Written by ProAssurance Risk Management | June 2021

PIAA, the nation’s leading association representing medical professional liability insurance companies, has prepared a study showing comparative payment analysis of medical professional liability claims based on five years of loss causation data.

Reducing the Risk of a Medical Malpractice Claim

This special report combines the data from PIAA with NORCAL’s proprietary closed-claims data and field research to offer four essential recommendations for minimizing the risk of a claim.

Indemnity Payments

  • See comparative payment analysis of MPL claims by indemnity payments.

Lowering Risk

  • Learn about 4 areas where you can limit your risk profile.

Common Terms

  • Get to know common industry terminology used in MPL claims.

References

1. Reprinted with permission from the PIAA MPL Closed Claim Comparative, Exhibit 3, pg.18, 2014 Edition, “Comparative Payment Summary by Loss Causation.” PIAA. Copyright, 2014.

2. NORCAL Mutual closed-claims study — associated issues in claims from July 2009 through June 2014 and NORCAL Mutual study of policyholder risk assessments from July 2009 through June 2011.