Study:Many malpractice suits groundless

"We found the system did reasonably well in sorting the good claims from the bad ones, but there were problems," says Harvard's David Studdert. But not everybody sees it that way. Studdert's team published a study that appears in the New England Journal of Medicine this week that finds that 40 percent of medical malpractice claims are groundless. The Harvard researcher argues that most are thrown out, a sign perhaps that the system works well enough already. The American Medical Association interprets the findings differently, calling the study proof that many cases are "slipping through the cracks."

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