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Looking for Hot Spots in the Liability Danger Zones
Jan 16, 2016
Reporting how liability insurers and providers are grouping and analyzing all their malpractice claims in large databases to identify what they are calling liability danger zones, this article highlights the CRICO Strategies Comparative Benchmarking System as having one of the largest datasets, with more than 300,000 medical malpractice cases, or 30% of all filings.
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Rice S. Looking for hot spots in the liability danger zone. Mod Healthc. 2016 Jan 16.
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