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Reports

• Center for Medicine in the Public Interest: "Insta-Americans: The Empowered (and Imperiled) Health Care Consumer in the Age of Internet Medicine" (PDF file - 856 KB, January 2008)
  
  
• American Tort Reform Foundation: Judicial HellholesTM 2007 (PDF file - 2.7 MB, December 2007)
  
  
• 2007 Update on U.S. Tort Costs Trends (PDF file - 187 KB, December 2007)
  
  
• Perceptions of Medical Expert Witness Testimony: A Survey Among Physician Specialists (PDF file - 71 KB, March 2007)
  
  
• 2006 Update on U.S. Tort Costs Trends (PDF file - 225 KB, December 2006)
  
  
• Tillinghast Towers-Perrin: U.S. Tort Costs: 2004 Update (PDF file – 233 KB; January 2005)
  
  
• American Tort Reform Foundation: Judicial HellholesTM 2004 (PDF file – 574K; December 15, 2004)
  
  
• Summary of Findings: Attitudes Toward medical Litigation (PDF file – 55 KB; April 1, 2004)
  
  
• Pharmaceutical Liability Study - Report on Findings (PDF file – 248 KB; July 15, 2003)


• AHA Survey: Medical Liability Crisis Affects Communities' Access to Care American Hospital Association (PDF file – 43 KB; April 28, 2003)
  
  
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Addressing the New Healthcare Crisis: Reforming the Medical Litigation System to Improve the Quality of Healthcare (PDF file - 733 KB; March 3, 2003)
  
  
• Tillinghast Towers-Perrin: U.S. Tort Costs: 2003 Update - (PDF file - 185 KB; December 2004)
  
  
• Health and Human Services Report - Confronting the New Health Care Crisis: Improving Health Care Quality and Lowering Costs By Fixing Our Medical Liability System - (PDF file - 132 KB; June 24, 2002
  
  
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers report - The Factors Fueling Rising Healthcare Costs - (PDF file - 72 KB; April 2002)
  
  
• Who Pays for Tort Liability Claims U.S. Council of Economic Advisors (PDF file - 1, 309 KB; April 2002)
  
  
• HarrisInteractive - Fear of Litigation Study; The Impact on Medicine - (PDF file - 347 KB; March 4-20, 2002)
  
  
• Long Term Care: General and Professional Liability Actuarial Analysis (PDF file - 297 KB; February 28, 2002)
  
  
• American Tort Reform - Bringing Justice to Judicial Hellholes - (PDF file - 1, 206 KB; 2002)
  

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