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How profitable is medical malpractice insurance?

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  • 1Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294.

Inquiry : a Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing
|January 1, 1991
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High medical malpractice insurance premiums are perceived as a crisis, but data shows it

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Area of Science:

  • Health Economics
  • Insurance Industry Analysis

Background:

  • Physician premiums for medical malpractice insurance are high, fueling crisis perceptions.
  • Concerns exist regarding excessive profits earned by medical malpractice insurance companies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compute and compare actual and allowable normal underwriting profit rates.
  • To evaluate the relative profitability of medical malpractice insurance versus other liability lines.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of underwriting profit rates for six major insurance companies from 1978-1986.
  • Comparison of actual profit rates against allowable normal profit rates for various insurance lines.

Main Results:

  • Medical malpractice insurance demonstrated medium underwriting profitability compared to other insurance lines between 1978 and 1986.
  • During 1985-1986, medical malpractice insurance was the least profitable insurance business.

Conclusions:

  • The perception of a medical malpractice insurance crisis may not be solely driven by excessive insurer profits.
  • Profitability analysis indicates that medical malpractice insurance is not consistently the most profitable line, and was least profitable in 1985-86.

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