Mastering malpractice risk management: a must for health care professionals.
Neither tort reform nor new forms of carrier coverage, self-insurance or other financing vehicles provide sufficient remedy for the malpractice crisis, according to a TPF&C/Tillinghast specialist in the field. He explains why this is so and suggests how health care providers--like it or not, now quite firmly in the malpractice insurance business--can learn a critical "second profession": financing and managing the economic risk of malpractice.
D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D007351:Insurance, Liability / Q000639:trends*; D008318:Malpractice / Q000191:economics*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States