title: United States' tort costs continue to escalate.
abstract: Tort costs in the United States totaled $132 billion in 1991, or 2.3% of the nation's total economic output; and medical malpractice accounted for $9.1 billion of that total, according to new data from Tillinghast, a division of Towers Perrin, New York City.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D016365:Liability, Legal / Q000191:economics; D008318:Malpractice / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States