Benchmarking Reports

In medical malpractice claims, having a documentation failure as a contributing factor moves the defendant’s chance of winning a case from likely to unlikely.

To help those in leadership roles make evidence-based decisions, this report provides credible information about the physical and fiscal impact the expansion of PA and NP numbers and scope has had on patient safety and MPL exposure, and what the future looks like in terms of PAs and NP liability risk.

These stories shared by your peers illuminate both obvious value and more subtle benefits of applying our data and analytics to your critical problems and opportunities for improvement.

This study explored three key characteristics, that, when present, most significantly increase the odds that a given MPL case will close with an indemnity payment.

Ten-year trends in case frequency, indemnity, and expenses are presented along with exploration of the clinical aspects of malpractice claims and suits.

An examination of medication-related malpractice claims to understand the impact—financial and human—and root causes of medication-related errors.

With a special focus on General Medicine, Obstetrics, Nursing, and Surgery, this report shines light on the who, what, when, and where of miscommunication.

This report examines more than 4,700 diagnosis-related malpractice cases that demonstrate the pitfalls that put patients at risk of a missed or significantly delayed diagnosis. Most notably, our analysis pinpoints where in the clinician’s thought process mistakes are most likely to occur.

No adverse event is “routine,” but a significant number of malpractice cases hinge on problems that occurred during the routine course of medical treatment. In our fourth Comparative Benchmarking Report, we identify contributing factors and lessons learned based on analysis of 1,500 cases filed during a five-year span related to errors generated from the most common of medical procedures.