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The Legal Liability Regime: How Well Is It Doing in Assuring Quality, Accounting for Costs, and Coping with an Evolving Reality in the Healthcare Marketplace?James F. BlumsteinVanderbilt University - Law School Annals of Health Law, 2002 Abstract: This brief Essay will focus, in somewhat truncated fashion, on the following broad set of questions: How well does the legal liability regime deal with selected current issues? The Essay will raise some issues regarding the current state of liability law and relate those issues to current health policy concerns such as quality assurance and cost containment. I will conclude that some premises of liability law have been called into question and are in need of rethinking.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 27 Keywords: medical malpractice, medical errors, political uncertainty, health law and health policy JEL Classification: I1, K0, I18, I19, K10, K13 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: November 23, 2002Suggested CitationContact Information
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