Medical Liability Mediation Alternatives
(MLMA)
Has medical liability mediation reached the Tipping Point?
Yes! Health Care Resolution's
Medical Liability Mediation Alternatives can take health care
providers and their insurers to The Tipping Point - and beyond!
WHY USE MLMA TO RESOLVE MEDICAL
LIABILTY CLAIMS?
MLMA REDUCES COSTS
A health care provider who resolves a medical liability
claim through MLMA dodges the bullet of unpredictable and
excessive jury awards. As if this is not enough, MLMA also
reduce legal defense costs and free up administrative staff
and clinical personnel time otherwise required for litigation
management or stressful deposition and court appearances.
MLMA IS ACCEPTED BY KEY
PARTIES, INCLUDING PATIENTS AND THEIR LAWYERS
No mediation program can achieve success without the acceptance
and support of all the constituents, including both the plaintiff
and defense medical liability bars, hospitals, health care
facilities, physicians and their insurers, and the complaining
parties themselves.
HCR does not believe that "one size fits all." That
is why the MLMA offers the parties choices.
HCR's MLMA program includes skilled professional neutrals
as well as highly experienced plaintiff and defense litigators
who have been trained in mediation skills and working singly
or together as a two-person team to resolve medical liability
cases. The experience of these professionals builds credibility
and trust with all participants during the resolution process.
HCR's Panel of Mediators includes
leading malpractice trial attorneys in the Philadelphia region.
They bring expertise from both sides of the bar to the process
of eliciting key issues and helping the parties reach realistic
assessments of their cases.
MLMA IS A PROVEN SUCCESS
HCR's MLMA co-mediation model is based on the Rush
Model, the mediation program developed at Rush-Presbyterian-St.
Luke's Medical Center of Chicago. Since starting in 1995,
Rush has achieved cost savings of 50% in defense as well as
making lower, controllable indemnity payments, almost always
within reserves. These results have helped Rush stabilize
its costs and have greatly enhanced its ability to predict,
plan and budget for its medical liability expenses.
In addition to cost savings, Rush credits these other benefits
to its mediation program: a less stressful and time consuming
process, reduction in management distraction and time spent
in day to day management of the case, more focused, effective
and efficient settlement negotiations and enhanced satisfaction
of the parties with both the process and outcomes.
HCR's MLMA programs build on the winning features of the Rush
Model, while adding our own unique features. We believe
that a vital benefit of mediation is the opportunity for the
parties, plaintiff and defendants alike, to participate actively
in the process, express the human dimensions of the case and
shape the final resolution. Our model encourages expression
of emotion, direct dialogue, use of apology and exchange of
information about what happened to help the parties reach
both emotional and financial closure.
MLMA is being used successfully by Drexel University College of Medicine and other institutions in the Philadelphia area and Eastern Pennsylvania.
Contact Jane Ruddell
about using MLMA to meet your needs.
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