# Physicians with Multiple Paid Medical Malpractice Claims: Are They Outliers or Just Unlucky?

Status: published
Visibility: public-pdf
Authors: with Bernard Black and David Hyman
Venue: International Review of Law and Economics
Year: 2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2019.03.006
Canonical URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2019.03.006

## Summary

Observed physician claim histories are compared here to a simulation-based null model in which malpractice claims are random events conditional on specialty and state risk. Prior paid claims strongly predict future paid claims, and even in high-risk specialties and states, physicians with three or more paid claims in five years are very unlikely to be explained by bad luck alone. The framework is meant as a way for hospitals and medical boards to identify outlier physicians for graduated intervention.

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