The increased use of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) represents an
important option for increasing access to healthcare. I explore the effect of two types of laws …

In this article, we examine the extent to which the timing of reforms to the tort liability system
coincides with changes in medical malpractice insurance market conditions. Our research is …

In this paper, we examine the influence of medical malpractice tort reform on the level of
private health insurance company losses incurred. We employ a natural experiment …

This article evaluates whether and how tort reform, specifically damage caps, stabilizes
medical malpractice insurance markets. We examine state‐level medical malpractice …

A common state legislative maneuver to combat rising healthcare costs is to reform the tort
system by implementing caps on noneconomic damages awardable in medical malpractice …

This paper studies whether doctors prescribe antibiotics to protect themselves against
potential malpractice claims. Using data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey …

This study examines how tort reform affects uncertainty in insurance markets by testing
whether noneconomic damage caps influence reserving volatility for medical malpractice …

In the past few decades, most states have enacted a specific tort reform that gives
defendants the option to pay damages awards to a successful plaintiff in the form of periodic …

Secondary lymphedema associated with breast cancer continues to be an economic
challenge for patients. The standard practice of managing breast cancer-related …

Expenditures for health care and health insurance have increased rapidly over the last
several decades. This thesis is composed of three essays that analyze markets for health …