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9/27/2009
Gerry Oginski
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Moving The Malpractice Debate Beyond ‘Caps’

"Insurance expert says patient safety measures could reduce costs

Former University of Connecticut law professor Tom Baker recently moved to the University of Pennsylvania Law School and its prestigious Wharton School of Business to teach insurance.

While in Hartford, he rose to become a national expert on the impact of medical malpractice litigation on physicians’ insurance costs — and on the costs of health care generally. In recent interviews, he has maintained that the U.S. has long experienced an epidemic of medical malpractice, but is not in the grip of an epidemic of malpractice litigation."

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Category: Medical Malpractice



Gerry practices law exclusively in the State of New York. Within New York he practices primarily in the following counties: New York, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk. Technically, Brooklyn is known as "Kings County," and Manhattan and New York City are known as "New York County." Staten Island is known as "Richmond County." These counties make up the New York metropolitan area.


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