
Health Care Management Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
3-2009
Publication Source
The Journal of Risk and Insurance
Volume
76
Issue
1
Start Page
197
Last Page
219
DOI
10.1111/j.1539-6975.2009.01294.x
Abstract
Whereas the literature evaluating the effect of tort reforms has focused on the impact of reforms on insurers' reported incurred losses, this article examines the ultimate effects of reforms using the developed losses from a comprehensive sample of insurers writing medical malpractice insurance from 1984 to 2003. Noneconomic damages caps are particularly influential in reducing medical malpractice losses and increasing insurer profitability. The long‐run effects of these reforms are greater than insurers' expected effects; for example, 5‐ and 7‐year developed loss ratios are below the initially reported incurred loss ratios for those years following the enactment of noneconomic damages caps. Analyses of reported losses consequently understate the ultimate effects of tort reforms. The quantile regressions show that reforms have the greatest effects for the firms that are at the high end of the loss distribution.
Copyright/Permission Statement
This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [Born, P., Viscusi, W.K., & Baker, T. The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers' Ultimate Losses. The Journal of Risk and Insurance 76, no. 1: 197-219], which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6975.2009.01294.x.
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Recommended Citation
Born, P., Viscusi, W., & Baker, T. (2009). The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers' Ultimate Losses. The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 76 (1), 197-219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6975.2009.01294.x
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Date Posted: 26 June 2018
This document has been peer reviewed.