Private Law Theory

Allen Kachalia, Kenneth Sands, Melinda Van Niel, Suzanne Dodson, Stephanie Roche, Victor Novack, Maayan Yitshak-Sade, Patricia Folcarelli, Evan M Benjamin, Alan C Woodward and Michelle M Mello, Effects of A Communication-And-Resolution Program on Hospitals’ Malpractice Claims and Costs, 37 Health Affairs 1836 (2018). Allen Kachalia and ten co-authors’ new piece, entitled Effects of a Communication-and-Resolution Program on Hospitals’ Malpractice Claims and Costs, offers an insight to address one of the most daunting challenges that looms over the field of tort law – and, indeed, one of the most daunting challenges that confronts the ‘sister professions’ of law and medicine more generally. The question is how to address the problem of preventable medical injury. In human terms, the problem is enormous … (more)

[Nora Freeman Engstrom, JOTWELL, 24 May]

First posted 2019-05-24 12:08:47