Robert E. White, Jr. is president, The Doctors Company.

Nuclear verdicts and rising costs: How inflation is reshaping medical malpractice claims

Health Policy
September 11, 2025

The Doctors Company

Physicians today face mounting challenges in the practice of medicine, including declining reimbursement, workforce shortages, administrative burdens, and the ever-present risk of litigation. The Doctors Company’s latest study, “Nuclear Verdicts and Rising Costs: How Inflation Is Impacting Medical Malpractice Claims,” highlights another pressure point: the accelerating impact of inflation on medical malpractice claims.

The research study, conducted by Moore …

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Nuclear verdicts and rising costs: How inflation is reshaping medical malpractice claims

Unveiling the hidden impact of social inflation: Soaring costs for medical professionals revealed

Health Policy
June 16, 2023

The Doctors Company

In Philadelphia, a family alleged that a birth injury had led to their baby’s cerebral palsy. They sued Penn Medicine and were awarded $183 million.

In Boise, a jury recently awarded the state’s second-highest-ever award, $13.5 million, in a suit against an emergency medicine group that was filed after a patient was disabled by a stroke. This verdict …

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Unveiling the hidden impact of social inflation: Soaring costs for medical professionals revealed

Malpractice claims from the COVID-19 pandemic: more questions than answers

Health Policy
April 2, 2021

The Doctors Company

The pandemic has raised pressing questions around preventive measures, vaccines, and safe treatment, but it has also obscured one key lingering uncertainty for medical professionals: Where are all the medical malpractice claims?

A variety of factors create a cloud of uncertainty around when, if ever, we will see the claims we expected from the care provided just before the pandemic, …

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Malpractice claims from the COVID-19 pandemic: more questions than answers