A recent article in The Legal Intelligencer discusses an annual court study which reveals that a 44% drop in the amount of medical malpractice filings has occurred. This decline is attributed to reform procedures initiated by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2003. The article mentions that PA medical malpractice cases must be filed in counties where the alleged malpractice and subsequent patient harm occurred. In addition, cases must be filed with a certificate of merit from a physician reflecting a reasonable likelihood that a medical malpractice defendant digressed from the conventional and expected standard of medical care that patients should receive. These measures are meant to aid in smoothing out the litigation process so it can best serve the people of Pennsylvania.
Based on the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts’ most recent statistical data on medical malpractice litigation, the number of medical malpractice suits begun in Pennsylvania dropped to 1,533 in 2009. [...]
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