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Medical Malpractice Appeals to the Spanish Supreme Court

par Amaral-Garcia, Sofia
Editeur scientifique Ganuza, Juan Jose;Gómez, Fernando
Référence Law and Economics. A Productive Relationship, FUNCAS Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 8
Publication Publié, 2019

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This short paper focuses on outcomes of medical malpractice claimsdecided by the Spanish Supreme Court from 2006 until 2010. Section 1provides a brief introduction to the problem of medical malpractice. Section 2describes the dataset and provides an overview of the main results in Amaral-Garcia and Garoupa (2015) and in Amaral-Garcia (2019). The former assesseswhether administrative courts can favor the government (i.e., whenever themedical accident took place in a public hospital) in medical malpractice cases.The later focuses on non-economic damages and tests for differences betweenadministrative and civil decisions (in general terms, it tests whether courtsaward different non-economic amounts to patients suffering harm in publicand private hospitals). Section 3 briefly considers which medical specialtiesare more commonly sued and makes a comparison with other jurisdictions.Section 4 analyses the impact of legal reforms introduced in 1998 and 1999,which aimed at reducing the duration of legal claims. Finally, conclusions arepresented in Section 5.