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Originally posted by Spanky
In the Bay Area in California malpratice insurance rates for Obstratricians is $350K a year. It is definitely tied to litigation. When something goes wrong with a kid everyone blames the obstratrician. On average an obstratrician gets sued once every fifteen months.
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Do you have a cite? Because the only one I can find is from the
San Francisco Medical Society in 2003 that says that because of MICRA, California obstetricians pay about $45,000 a year. I haven't practiced in the Bay Area in California in about three years, so maybe things have changed drastically. When I practiced there, the malpractice insurance companies loved to set reserves for claims that weren't going anywhere and matters that never became claims, and then they'd charge ridiculous surcharges based on non-existent claims history.
See also,
http://www.sfms.org/m_brief.htm though I can't find a publication date on this article, though it looks like it was before Proposition 12 passed here in Texas.
