What states are these fleeing doctors going to?
California, Wisconsin, Indiana and Colorado all have favorable malpractice climates.
Locally a representative of a major malpractice insurer got up in front of a crowd and told them that there is no crisis. The insurer then dropped the entire neurosurgical department at the local university.
Galt's Gulch
Wisconsin is one. We have a cap, and a patient compensation fund. My ER groups malpractice rates have FALLEN the last 5 years.
We are now seeing a fair number of refugees from Illinois, fleeing the malpractice hell in that state. There are no Neurosurgeons in Illinois south of Springfield. If you need your head cracked you have to get flown to St Louis.