[At _War_With_Liberals]

How does medical liability insurance compare to the insurance paid by other service type businesses as a % of net income?

[hocndoc]

We pay all the other types of insurance, plus medical malpractice.
The percentage varies, and I can't remember reading about it that way.

I'd bet it's gone from 5 or 6% to 10% to 20%, just off the top of my head.

[MarkL]

I know that high risk malpractice insurance is out of control. The neurosurgeon who operated on my back (he's a neck and brain tumor specialist, so my lumbar vertebra was a walk in the park for him) told me that his malpractice premium was over $120,000 a year.

Mark

[FreedomPoster]

We compared my wife's professional liability insurance (75 person CPA firm) with a friend's 4-doctor anesthesiology practice. I don't have the exact numbers, but the wife's practice pays an order of magnitude less than the docs, with an order of magnitude more professionals. So net-net, in this comparison, they're paying roughly two orders of magnitude more for medical malpractice than CPA malpractice.