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  • Book & Softbound Volumes on Health Law
    • Health Care Law And Ethics - 10th Edition
    • Bioethics and Public Health Law (5th ed.)
    • The Law of Health Care Finance and Regulation (5th ed.)
    • Medical Liability and Treatment Relationships (5th ed.)
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: Introduction
      • Chapter 2: The Treatment Relationships: Formation and Termination
      • Chapter 3: The Treatment Relationship: Confidentiality, Consent, and Conflicts of Interest
      • Chapter 4: Medical Malpractice and Tort Liability
        • Chapter 4.A: Quality of Care and Legal Responses
        • Chapter 4.B: Physician Liability
        • Chapter 4.C: Alternative Theories and Liability
        • Chapter 4.D: Causation, Injury, and Damages
          • Chapter 4.D.1: Loss of Chance
          • Chapter 4.D.2: Compensable Injuries
          • Chapter 4.D.3: Calculation and Administration of Damages
        • Chapter 4.E: Defenses
        • Chapter 4.F: Institutional Liability
        • Chapter 4.G: Medical Malpractice Reform

Chapter 4.D: Causation, Injury, and Damages

Click here to read the Health Care Quality Improvement Act, which governs the National Practitioner Data Bank.  .   

Here are examples of large jury verdicts and settlements from Florida.

Links to each state's physician profile webpage can be accessed at DocFinder.  

Data on malpractice insurance premiums can be found at Bernard S. Black, et al., Medical Liability Insurance Premia 1990-2017: Dataset, Literature Review, and Summary Information

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