Malpractice Juries Tend to Side More With Doctors, Researcher Finds: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Malpractice Juries Tend to Side More With Doctors, Researcher Finds: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance: "juries are several times more likely to depart from the judgment of the [independent medical] reviewers when doing so will exonerate the defendant than they are to disagree when doing so will lead to liability. The repeated finding that juries rule in favor of defendant physicians more often than physician reviewers do is remarkable given the documented reluctance of physicians to label another physician's care as negligent."